Quotes About Curiosity

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination…Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Our element is unending immaturity.

Rückwärts durch die Knie betrachtet war die Welt immer am interessantesten.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon.

You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff

I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.

Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Love is the answer but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some good questions.

Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

He who thought at last the books would tell him why people couldn't stay, and how their maps unraveled into ink-dissolving roads, while the sleepless boy and hall light stood watch...

To ask the hard question is simple.

The Truth is Out there

Who can explain the reasons for a daydream?

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

Dreams are answers to questions we haven't yet figured out how to ask.

I felt an urge to conquer this new village.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

Quick now, give up this idle pondering! And let's be off into the great wide world! I tell you: the fool who speculates on things is like some animal on a dry heath, led by an evil fiend in endless circles, while fine green pastures lie on every side.

he seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

In these pages, the Professor had walked beyond beaten paths, looking for truth in a place no one knows.

Ribbon, bell, emerald, stamp. The words that came from my mother's mouth thrilled me, like the names of little girls from distant countries or new species of plants. As I listened to her talk, it made me happy to imagine a time when all these things had a place here on the island.