Quotes About Curiosity

This is a matter of curiosity; and you have got a woman for your ally. Under such conditions success is certain, sooner or later.

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.

Prudens quæstio dimidium scientiæ—to know what to ask is already to know half.

We are like a man who goes round a castle seeking in vain for an entrance, and sometimes sketching the facades. If we can ferret out the ultimate nature of our own minds we shall perhaps have the key to the external world. 

To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education.

There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education.

It is difficult to be enthusiastic about Aristotle, because it was difficult for him to be enthusiastic about anything. His motto is nil admirari - to admire or marvel at nothing.

For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

But something of the skepticism that injured my religious faith has overflowed into timid doubts of science

Leonardo called "the noblest pleasure, the joy of understanding.

To the Romans, the Greeks and the Jews Sumeria was unknown.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child

Philosophy begins when one doubts one's own beliefs, dogmas, and axioms

in both cases the desire for knowledge had ended bliss. Sophisticates

What a strange instrument a tuba is. I wonder how many different shapes they twisted that metal into until they realized that a tuba's shape was the exact one they needed to make that exact sound.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.

In the universe there are things that are known and things that are unknown, and in between there are doors.

we think we understand all about the human body but actually we know very little.

This was an adventure, I told myself, an intriguing quest, and one that I would regret not seeing through at least a little further along the way.

they are mystified by certain instances.

Up to then, neither Mother nor Pop had any immediate church connections, but used to meet with a few others at spiritualistic seances, sometimes at home, sometimes elsewhere around the block. A prime mover in this form of religious service was old man Demarest, a devout believer. The chief tenet of these earnest persons was that the dead did live as spirits about us and would come or could be called to us at certain times by prayer or otherwise. There were curious consequences.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

Did you ever have a sister? did you?