Quotes About Curiosity

When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles

But in the beaten way of friendship what make you at Elsinore?

It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he values most; for equalities are so weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety.

William Shakespeare

What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it / From action and adventure?

I rather would entreat thy company, To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than (living dully sluggardiz'd at home) Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

Maybe that's the key to happiness—being sort of dumb, not wanting to know any of the answers.

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

I wanted to know her the way a bee wants to know a great bright flower.

looked over to where I had dropped my net. There it was right where I had dropped it; wide open and not a monkey in it. I couldn't believe it. How on earth could the little monkeys have gotten out of the net? My first thought was that the yellow ring had gotten tangled in a bush, and while the monkeys were flouncing

The most important thing about education is appetite.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn." (Winston Churchill)

Love to learn—hate to be taught.

Il vestito era quello che aveva trovato in fondo al secondo baule e che fin dall'inizio l'aveva attirata come la mela aveva attirato Eva.

All the conflicting feeling inside her suddenly found an outlet. The mixed motives for asking him in—the liking, the affection, the feminine curiosity, the piqued pride—suddenly merged into indignation to keep out something stronger. She was as much alarmed at her own feelings as indignant with him, but the situation had to be saved somehow.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife's bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who were worthy—and why try to stuff it into those who are not?—and knowledge and thought would open the 'magic casements' of the mind.

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know....That is why I value that little phrase I don't know so highly. It's small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include spaces within us as well as the outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended...Poets, if they're genuine, must always keep repeating I don't know.

But any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Why there's still all this space inside me I don't know.

Y si todo esto sucede en un laboratorio? ¿Bajo sólo una lámpara de día y miles de millones por la noche?

The most important word in our planet's lexicon is why. We suspect this is true of other galaxies too.