Quotes About Curiosity

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

Polo: "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours." Khan: "Or the question it asks you, forcing you to answer, like Thebes through the mouth of the Sphinx.

I was yearning to follow him, especially now that I knew he shared in the enterprises of that raggedy gang of boys, and it seemed to me that he had opened the gates of a new kingdom, to look at not with fearful distrust but with comradely enthusiasm.

Kim ise ö?renci, en büyük arzusu nedenlerle sonuçlar? belli bir mant??a, kesinli?e oturtmak, ne var ki zihnine her an yan?tlanmam?? sorular ü?ü?üyor.

I like to know that books exist that I will still be able to read…" she says, sure that existent objects, concrete albeit unknown, must correspond to the strength of her desire. How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a book that does not yet exist, but which, since she wants it, cannot fail to exist ?

And every time, he concentrates on the query of the latest interlocutor, his eyes staring, his chin quivering, his neck twisting in an effort to keep pending and in plain view all the other unresolved queries, with the mournful patience of overnervous people and the ultrasonic nervousness of overpatient people.

However vast any person's basic reading may be, there still remain an enormous number of fundamental works that he has not read.

Similar stories are numerous and there are many variants, but none is that story. Can I have dreamed it? And yet I know I will have no peace until I have found it and find out how it ends.

What does my daughter have to do with crocodiles?

Leer es ir al encuentro de algo que está a punto de ser y aún nadie sabe qué será.

I speak from my present level of ignorance. The more you know, the more ignorant you become, because ignorance grows exponentially—the more answers you get, the more new questions arise.

Creative, exploratory learning requires peers currently puzzled about the same terms or problems.

Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

getting lost is not always a bad thing

To hunt words is to do no trespass.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Why is there something, rather than nothing?" is a question that anyone can ask.

Knowledge that is not being used for winning of further knowledge does not even remain- it decays and disappears.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Some seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge: that is curiosity. Others seek knowledge that they may themselves be known: that is vanity. But there are still others who seek knowledge in order to serve and edify others, and that is charity." The

He was always telling us about a lot of creepy guys that go around having affairs with sheep, and guys that go around with girls' pants sewed in the lining of their hats and all.