Quotes About Curiosity

A world without wonder, and a way of mind without wonder, becomes a world without imagination, and without imagination man is a poor and stunted creature. Religion, poetry, and all the arts have their sources in this upwelling of wonder and surprise. Let us thank God that so much will forever remain out of reach, safe from our inquiry, inviolate forever from our touch.

sharpened and the house will have an odd little way of opening doors by itself and leaning to one side.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Anyone who stops learning i: old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child

The young Johnson was what Coleridge liked to call a 'library cormorant', a rapacious creature nesting among books.

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

There are few things more exciting to me… than a psychological reason.

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose," said Isabel

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

do not understand, and perhaps never will. As the evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane observed, it's not just that the universe might be stranger than we think, but that it might be stranger than we can think.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Let us roam then, you and I, When the evening is splayed out across the sky [...] Paths that follow like a nagging accusation Of a minor violation To lead you to the ultimate reproof ... Oh, do not say, 'Bad kitty!' Let us go and prowl the city. In the rooms the cats run to and fro Auditioning for a Broadway show." (From The Love Song of J. Morris Housecat )

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.