Quotes About Curiosity

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

I don't like questions. They invent the answers. The real answers are discovered, before you even know what the question is.

door. She was not a writer herself, but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes,

Of all the human emotions, curiosity is the one least subject to gluttony. Once engaged, it has a tendency to grow relentlessly until in the end the scholar becomes curious about the nature of revelation itself.

My only fear is the unknown.

I feel as though I am swimming in an ocean of knowledge with but a teaspoon to consume it.

Don't you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...

Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know by Edwin Tenney Brewster.

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long.

Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

the ancient Greeks or Romans could have invented such a device; the technology wasn't beyond them. For all we know, someone at that time actually may have invented something similar and then abandoned it.

Does asking oneself these questions in an attempt to see how the machine works spoil the enjoyment? It hasn't for me. Music isn't fragile. Knowing how the body works doesn't take away from the pleasure of living.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

quite naturally, I am curious about behaviour which does not fit the natural patterns, which floats suspended at some unexplored level of the sentient sea and defies the tides and waves of society.

Babies welcomed at conception, prepared for during pregnancy, and gently birthed into loving hands begin life positively. They look out at the world with immense interest and curiosity, act as if they feel safe, and make a solid connection with their parents

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

It always amused me to observe the pathetically desperate hunger expressed in popular culture for life-forms on other planets, when underneath the very feet of these seekers of aliens, and roundly ignored by them, were the most exotic, grotesque, and fabulous life-forms imaginable.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

It always amused me to observe the pathetically desperate hunger expressed in popular culture for life forms on other planets, when under the feet of these seekers of aliens, and roundly ignored by them, were the most exotic, grotesque, and fabulous life forms imaginable