Quotes About Curiosity

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?

We know many truths; we have discovered many useful inventions. Let us console ourselves for not knowing possible connections between a spider and the ring of Saturn, and continue examining what is within our reach.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

I wish for you constantly for I want to talk about everybody and everything. I can't go up to a stranger & say 'your manners &looks have stirred me to this profound meditation'-

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back?

I guess I had never bothered to consider that there might such a thing as a boy, but now that I had found one, I thought it was just about the most wonderful concept in the world. He smelled of mud and sugar and an animal I'd never scented before, and a faint meaty odor clung to his fingers, so I licked them.

Some humans seem to get excited when they notice dogs peeing in the yard;

first, everything was dark. I felt warmth all around me, and I could smell other puppies cuddled up close. I could smell my mother, too. Her scent was safety, and comfort, and milk. When I was hungry, I would squirm toward that smell, and find milk to drink. When I was cold, I would press close to her fur, or burrow under a brother or a sister. And then I'd sleep until I was hungry again. When I opened my eyes after a few days, things began to get more interesting.

This one is a rocket, Bailey," Ethan told me, showing me a toy shaped like a stick. But what use was a sticklike thing that smelled too bad to chew? I turned my nose away. "We're going to land one on the moon one day, and then people will live there, too. Do you want to be a space dog?

Craig took the phone. Human beings seem to like phones a lot. They stare at them and touch them and talk to them all the time, even with a dog in the room. I do not know why. Phones do not smell at all interesting.

if there is something to win and nothing to lose from asking a question then ask whatever it takes

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

If you look at a dog following the advice of his nose, he traverses a patch of land in a completely unplottable manner. And he invariably finds what he's looking for.

O plunge your hands in water,Plunge them in up to the wrist;Stare, stare in the basinAnd wonder what you've missed.The glacier knocks in the cupboard,The desert sighs in the bed,And the crack in the tea cup opensA lane to the land of the dead.

Knowledge may have its purposes, but guessing is always more fun than knowing.

Robert Boyle, the English scientist largely responsible for the creation of the modern discipline of chemistry, interviewed miners in the 1670s in an attempt to discover whether the men had met with any "subterraneous demons . . . in what shape and manner they appear; what they portend and what they do.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Not assuming you already know is a powerful principle of focus. One

Focus is not achieved by staring hard at something. It is not trying to force focus, nor does it mean thinking hard about something. Natural focus occurs when the mind is interested. When this occurs, the mind is drawn irresistibly toward the object (or subject) of interest. It is effortless and relaxed, not tense and overly controlled.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.