Quotes About Curiosity

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

Beware of a man of one book.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!

I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.