Broadening Knowledge Quotes

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

If you're the smartest person you know, it's time to know some new people.

I like to try everything, taste everything.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

I would love to open up my horizons. I love trying new things.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.

I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

I'm open. I like new experiences in life and new cultures.

When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

You can't be limited by your own experience.

I need to meet people to be able to write.

Being adventurous and open to something different is something I'd encourage captains to do.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

The world is full of opportunities, and I want to try as many as I possibly can.

I think it's important that science just doesn't stay within narrow boundaries.

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

I love going out and doing new things.

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.