Quotes About Curiosity

Curious how people can go on doing the same thing day after day!

Do not speak of what you do not know.

She was constantly surprising him. Siri went over and held up Mr. A's hand. All the fingertips were purple: triplicate syndrome.

Walters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs. "You still sex-mad, I see, Morse," said the surgeon. "I don't seem to be able to shake it off, Max." Morse turned over a page. "And you don't improve much either, do you? You've been examining all our bloody corpses for donkey's years, and you still refuse to tell us when they died.

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew): Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. (RUDYARD KIPLING)

During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)

No, Lewis. Unlike you, I've lived a very sheltered life. I have tried to get invited along to one of these porno-parties, but everybody seems to think I'm above such things.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Dog bark at what they don't understand.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

What is not yet known those blinded by faith can never learn.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

How does one instill curiosity? Without it this 'educational' process is a continual struggle between a student who is trying to get by and a teacher who is trying to catch him at it, neither profiting.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Not-learning is the conscious decision not to learn something that you could learn.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when free from the coercion of parents and masters.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

So he explored, explored within himself, scanning himself with a lamp, as if it were not himself at all but some strange monster that he had been commanded to guard.

Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.

We learn by doing, and each new experience is part answer and part question.

God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.