Quotes About Curiosity

I have not the remotest clue what the nature or extent of my neighbor's woes can be.

I don't understand the world." "I don't either. I wonder if anyone does. We all remain children, no matter how much time goes by. We don't understand anything.

I hated school and never read a textbook. I only read entertaining books.

The source of our laughter is the small stone that tumbled into a corner of Pandora's box.

Let's just say that my life depends on getting the best blossoms I can. If they don't sell, I don't eat. Perhaps that's why the flowers grow so large—because I'm driven by necessity. People like you, on the other hand, who grow mums as a hobby, are motivated more by simple curiosity, or the desire to satisfy their pride.

Don't allow yourself to be satisfied with your success. Critique what you've achieved and ask what you can learn from others.

For within the heart of curiosity, lies the secret of greatness.

No pursuit of knowledge is a solitary venture, and greatness is often born from the coming together of curious minds.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you.

Care, says the proverb, once killed a cat. It may be so, but it has killed never another.

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

3 de maio Aprendi com meu filho de dez anos Que a poesia é a descoberta Das coisas que eu nunca vi

Grinberg (1983), in exploring the analyst's professional identity, stresses a particular kind of curiosity regarding the mind and psychic reality, a curiosity that extends to the analyst's own psychic functioning; Grinberg

The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.

Das Fräulein Scuderi? Bei meiner Seele! In diesem Wort weht 'was von ihrem Atem. Und kommt's von ihr, dann hat dies kleine Lied Eine Geschichte, die mich intressiert.

library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books...

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

My favourite prank in heavy metalwork was to get a penny and spend three or four minutes making it really hot with a blowtorch, and then leave it on Mr Lane's desk, so that he'd see it and pick it up out of curiosity. First you'd hear: 'Waaaaahhhhhh!' Then: 'Osbourne, you little bastard!' Heh-heh-heh. The old hot-penny trick. Priceless, man.

Most a barátom kiáltott föl: - Egyébként még sosem ettem ebben az országban egy jó Esterházy-rostélyost. - Vállat vontam, tekints zicsinek.