Quotes About Curiosity

There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.

The best part of the journey is the surprise and wonder along the way.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.