Quotes About Curiosity

When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitude and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

But it is sometimes more fun to explore than to know. And you might find that you love the voyage in all its stumbling uncertainty.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

She took a deep breath, as if the question were something she had to swim under.

Father Christmas?' said Father Vodol, suspiciously. 'It doesn't sound very memorable.

These books are portals to all the lives you could be living.

Life is full of strange phenomena.

Generally, you don't want to begin conversations with "Why" questions because, as mentioned before, they have a tendency to put people on the defense. It

Where would you be curious or feel suspense about what's going to happen next? Add pauses in those places to hike up the intensity.

glanced over my shoulder and saw the lady was giving away samples." Ask yourself: - How did it feel? - How did it taste? - What did it look like? - What did it sound like? - What did it smell like?

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.

my attention was drawn instantly to the girl with the biggest boobs. Her eyes were glowing.

the two most taboo lines in all media in America are I don't know and I don't care.

Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Travel, she had discovered, was a delightful means of gratifying the intelligent curiosity that Dr. Johnson had called the root of all wisdom and culture. "I go to bed exhaustedly happy," she wrote in her notebook, "and wake up expectantly smiling.

He looked about the workroom, his eyes falling upon my integrator. "What manner of beast is that?" he said. "An unmannerly kind," I said. He extended a hand toward its head. "Does it bite?" "I don't know, but in a moment we may find out.

Matthew Hughes

One thing I have noticed about continuous learners is they tend to have pen and paper with them at all times, because they never know when they are going to hear something great or have an idea.

If children develop a love for learning, they will become lifelong learners—and continuous learners tend to be successful at everything they turn their attention to.

The day you fall in love with learning, your life changes forever.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know—that is curiosity. To know, to be known—that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know—that is gospel duty.

The acquisition of knowledge, the sheer pleasure of finding things out, is the greatest gift in life.