Quotes About Curiosity

Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

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

But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know;—that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power.

And such men, you know, before finding out in what way something they desire can exist, put that question aside so they won't grow weary deliberating about what's possible and not.

The story is, that Leontius, the son of Aglaion, coming up one day from the Piraeus, under the north wall on the outside, observed some dead bodies lying on the ground at the place of execution. He felt a desire to see them, and also a dread and abhorrence of them; for a time he struggled and covered his eyes, but at length the desire got the better of him; and forcing them open, he ran up to the dead bodies, saying, Look, ye wretches, take your fill of the fair sight.

But what if there are no gods?

The unexplored life is not worth living!

Philosophy starts nowhere else but with wondering.

I shouldn't like to take my oath on the whole story, but one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act—that is, that we shall be better, braver, and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

I would not swear that my argument is right down to the last word, but I would fight to the last breath, both in word and deed, that we will be better men – brave instead of lazy – if we will believe we must search for the things we do not know; if we will refuse to believe it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that there is no point in looking.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and all philosophy begins in wonder

but I would contend at all costs in both word and deed as far as I could that we will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not [c] know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

Philosophy begins in wonder. -Plato

Les prescribirás, pues, que se apliquen particular­mente a aquella enseñanza que les haga capaces de pre­guntar y responder con la máxima competencia posible?

El asombro es la sensación de un filósofo y la filosofía empieza con el asombro

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato)

The true lover of learning then must from his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth...

Pero estar ansioso de aprender y ser filósofo ¿No es una misma cosa?

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know, whether they may not be good rather than things that [c]{34} I know to be bad.

Wonder (???????) is the only beginning of philosophy, and he was a good genealogist who made Iris the daughter of Thaumas

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

So Tumpty tried hiding upside down, behind a pot plant, under a large cardboard box, with his eyes tightly closed.

How could a truck hack off my baby toe and leave the rest of my toes intact?