Quotes About Curiosity

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

We shall pick up an existence by its frogs.

But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of...

When, upon the closed system of normal preoccupations, a story of a sea serpent appears, it is inhospitably treated. To us of the wider cordialities, it has recommendations for kinder reception. I think that we shall be noted in recognitions of good works for our bizarre charities.

The process of discovery begins when we observe, often vaguely, a gap between what is and what could be. Our intuition tells us something better is just beyond the range of our mind's eye. To build a culture of discovery, we must encourage, not discourage, the passionate pursuit of hunches (no matter their origin).

God save me from him who studies but one book.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Indeed, a man's library is a sort of harem, and I observe that tender readers have a great prudency in showing their books to a stranger.

If you haven't owed a library fine at least once in your life, you're not a real reader.

Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance.

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.

I moustache you a question, but I'll shave it for later.

Little Mary was visiting her grandmother in the country. Walking in the garden, she chanced to see a peacock, a bird she had never seen before. After gazing in silent admiration, she ran quickly into the house and cried out: "Oh, Granny, come and see! One of your chickens is in bloom."

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. There have been added, however, some grasp of the immensity of things, some purification of emotion by understanding.

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

Maps are a way of organizing wonder.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Quoter's curiosity is a disease whose only cure is more reading.

– What the hail? – For the hail of it – Hail yah!

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.