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Quotes About Curiosity

I had fallen into the temptation of seeing, the temptation of knowing and feeling.
~ Clarice Lispector
Tienes la costumbre de querer saber por qué -el por qué no me interesa, la causa es la materia del pasado.
~ Clarice Lispector
Tens o hábito de querer saber por quê - e porque não me interessa, a causa é matéria de passado.
~ Clarice Lispector
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
~ Claude Bernard
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
~ Claude Bernard
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.
~ Claude Bernard
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
~ Claude Bernard
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
~ Claude Bernard
The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.
~ Claude Bernard
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
~ Claude Bernard
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
A peculiar feature – no doubt a weakness – of my mental make-up is that I find it difficult to concentrate twice on the same subject. Normally
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
the more I live, the more I regret how little i know
~ Claude Monet
Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
~ Claude Monet
It's amazing how just one thing said by just one person in the middle of just one conversation on just one regular day can start a person wondering things she had never wondered before.
~ Unknown
Cuando descubrí lo que era coger le pregunté a mi madre, con la sorpresa, la inocencia y el espanto de la infancia, si eso que me habían dicho mis amigas era cierto, si de verdad las mujeres debían dejar que los hombres «metieran su pito» dentro de una. Mi madre me miró, se tomó un instante y luego dijo: «No lo pienses así, es como cuando uno tiene hambre y come, o tiene sed y toma agua». No mencionó el amor. Ni siquiera los hijos por venir.
~ Unknown
What is wrong with you? This question gets stuck in your dreams.
~ Claudia Rankine
You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
~ Unknown
For those of you who are about to embark on reading The Math Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination.
~ Unknown