Quotes About Curiosity

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency." -R. Daneel Olivaw

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

One cannot know everything.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

I like to feel dumb. That's how I know there's more in the world than me.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.