Quotes About Curiosity

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.

It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.

It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Beware of the person of one book.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

Since then...I have continued to practice the only sport that suits me. Almost everything attracts me, from archaeology to Islam to Asia and drawings from all eras... The books have never stopped accumulating, but I don't think of them as a collection. For me, they're simply a reservoir of indispensable knowledge that a computer could never replace.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.

It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried?

My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?