Quotes About Curiosity

Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our very beginnings. It is the core reason our progenitors wandered forth from the first primordial valleys in search of more room, better hunting, or more fertile soil.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris and Brussels. You could pick up some incredible and often valuable music for almost nothing back then.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.

Students should learn about the long-standing values of truth, beauty, and goodness, think hard about them, and interrogate them skillfully.

We did not go right to sleep but talked until late into the night. There was so much to tell one another, so many questions on my mind.

Who knows what exciting things might be just over the next hill.

Is my love so small that I cannot let him discover anew what happiness life has to offer?

So much of life is about standing on the curb, willing to see what rolls up.

So much of life is about standing on the curb, wiling to see what rolls up.

One can't merely content oneself with identifying proximate causes; one also has to ask about ultimate causes.

Her smiles were sudden and transformative, but I never understood what caused them.

No one who is learning should ever feel stupid

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.

All the great unanswered questions of the world will be answered. Who are we? What are we here for? Where will we end up? And most important of all: Can mankind actually get any stupider?

Humans are the most gloriously bizarre creatures.

There is much unexplained in the world. It behoves one to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralised debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

Do you want some advice? Go home. You're far too inquisitive, and here in East Carmine curiosity only ends one way. Death? Worse - enlightenment.