Quotes About Curiosity

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.

Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.