Quotes About Curiosity

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

The wise man is astonished by anything.