Quotes About Curiosity

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

All men desire by nature to know.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.