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Quotes About Curiosity

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.
~ Kevin Sessums
There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.
~ Nir Hod
I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
~ Nhat Hanh
Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.
~ Paul Johnson
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.
~ W. W. Sawyer
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
~ Peter Medawar
When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.
~ Sterling W Sill
There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
~ Michel de Montaigne
Imagination is greater than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
With knowledge comes more doubt.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.
~ Jack Kuehler
All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.
~ Jay Maisel
I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.
~ Britt Robertson
Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.
~ Carl Sagan
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
~ Susan Orlean
On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.
~ Arthur Hertzberg
Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.
~ Agnes Mary Clerke
It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.
~ Lucian
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
~ John Adams
I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
Poems come from incomplete knowledge.
~ Diane Wakoski
Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.
~ Tim Lebbon