Quotes About Curiosity

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?