Quotes About Curiosity

All these observations fascinate us, and fill us with an intense desire to know more about the nature of these phenomena.

Is nature a gigantic cat?

An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite all right on this Cretan coast, and felt happy and free there and I needed nothing - but because I have always been consumed with one desire; to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.

ADAM AND EVE, sitting in Paradise, chatting: If we could only open the gate and leave, says Eve. To go where, my dearest? If we could only open the gate and leave! Outside is sickness, pain, death! If we could only open the gate and leave!

Zorba sees everything everyday as if for the first time.

I headed abroad once again, suffering from the incurable Faustian disease of learning.

I have always been consumed with one desire: to touch and see as much as possible of the earth and the sea before I die.

Podría aprender más? ¿Cuánto era posible aprender? ''¿Cómo sera —se preguntó— aprender todo lo que puede enseñarse?

supper. While he ate he watched his neighbors watching him.

Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Real education is about getting people involved in thinking for themselves- and that's a tricky business to know how to do well, but clearly it requires that whatever it is you're looking at has to somehow catch people's interest and make them want to think, and make them want to pursue and explore.

Willingness to be puzzled by what seem to be obvious truths is the first step towards gaining understanding of how the world works.

Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry.

There are any number of questions that might lead one to undertake a study of language. Personally, I am primarily intrigued by the possibility of learning something, from the study of language, that will bring to light inherent properties of the human mind.

I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Los maestros tienen la obligación de investigar y difundir la verdad sobre los temas más significativos, sobre los temas que importan.

I think, very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively, independently, without external controls.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

I'll have what she's having