We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

I’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

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.

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

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

Truth is a pathless land.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

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

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

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

What I’m trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

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

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

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.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.