Quotes About Curiosity

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

Next to entertaining or impressive talk, a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.

If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

Great intellects are skeptical.

The less we know the more we suspect.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

I always read the last page of a book first, so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try on something new and play the game full-out.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

If you can teach me a new word, I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

The interests of childhood and youth are the interests of mankind.

That breeze in your soul is adventure calling.

To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved.