Quotes About Curiosity

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Growing up, I was the odd bird. My interest in mathematics, my interest in the world, how I approach things from a scientific standpoint. You're always going to be looked at as a different bird.

Old men ought to be explorers.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.