I love trying new things.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

If you’re embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don’t forget the toilet paper.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

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.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Let the path be open to talent.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.