Knowledge Seeker Quotes

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

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 not an educator ... I'm a learner.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth.

My dad was the guy who wanted to teach a man to fish. He was very, very curious, right up until the day he died. He was insatiable for information. He was the pursuit of awesome.

Sure, I love to read, and I love to learn, but I was always nerdy that way.

The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who has only questions, to comfort himself, makes music.

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.