Quotes About Curiosity

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.