Quotes About Curiosity

The average man is not hard to mystify.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

Never ask a man where he has been.

I don't know man, I didn't do it.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

Why do men go to zoos?

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.