Quotes About Curiosity

To become more aware, it is necessary to do something that you haven't done. Everything that you have done will only make you as aware as you are now.

This shows you are never too old to get surprised.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.

You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

Life is a question in the form of an answer

Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.

The American's head are on their chins a little bit at the moment

Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to.You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

I know that I know nothing

An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper.

It's perhaps more laudable to simply keep heading out into the world, than always tilting to leave one's mark on it.

My mind works in mysterious ways