Quotes About Curiosity

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

Never let schooling interfere with education.

In principle new points of view are not as a rule discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the-way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name. C.G. Jung, Synchronicity[26]

Equally important was the approach of the advertising, which can be summarized with a single word: "minimalist." "Billy Graham, Harringay Arena, 7: 30 Every Night." Or "Hear Billy Graham." Or just "Billy Graham," with his photo. Crusade organizers took a cue from advertisements for Cadillacs in the United States. They gave just enough information to arouse curiosity, implying that the product was so desirable it sold itself.

Robert's problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance.

We learn precisely enough to keep us from wanting to know any more

Maybe it seems strange to you, all the trouble we're taking to catch a glimpse of what you're going to see in close-up, so soon. It's hard to explain: I don't think it's jealousy, or even impatience. Just a need for independence.

It's a beautiful thing to cultivate a genuine curiosity in others. As creatures made in the image of God, the people before you today hold great treasures of story, experience, and wisdom.

You know, the truth isn't hard to find, if you're willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They're afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions.

You say science is about admitting what we don't know," she said.

Remember that what you do not yet know is more important than what you already know.—Jordan Peterson

I think you could have a really good night tonight," she said huskily. Jade's eyes danced over her cheap outfit, taking in her costume jewelry and her ruby-red lipstick. "Yeah?" he said. "Thanks for the premonition.

As some of our more uncouth agents are prone to say, we want to know how many times he wipes his ass when he shits.

I've never been out four days. You've never been dead before.

Religions do not teach doubt.

It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

Certainty is the lot of those who do not ask questions.

When she introduces me to her parentsback straightened, hair finally combed, strangled by a tie,should I sit knees together on their 3rd degree sofaand not ask Where's the bathroom?

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell dont understand everything.

L'énigme à elle seule vaut presque tout. Parfois le mystère est bien plus amusant que le reste.

I must follow the journalistic instinct of being skeptical of everything until I personally have proved it true.

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.