Vernon Howard Quotes

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.