Quotes About Curiosity

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

Ex Africa semper aliquid novi.

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

One of my many weaknesses as a journalist is that I can't ask perfect strangers about the masturbation habits of their ex-spouses, just me being a stuffed shirt again.

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins learning. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.

It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.

The one who asks questions does not lose his way.

Are you out of your candy wrapper?

Nonsense," said another voice-Dr. Rust. "We're librarians. When we don't find what we're looking for in the first place we look, we don't give up. We keep looking.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

Their flight was not less exhilarating for being explainable.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

Ada kalanya orang tak bisa menahan keberangan.

But I couldn't stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.

Seluruh halaman ditutup dengan pagar bambu anyaman tinggi, tak dapat dilihat dari jalanan. Apa sebab dipagar rapat tinggi? Agar orang tak tahu apa yang sedang terjadi di dalam.

Di sini tak ada rumah yang terkunci pintunya, siang ataupun malam. Di sini pintu bukanlah dibuat untuk menolak manusia, tapi menahan angin. Di sini semua orang tidur di ambin pada malam atau siang hari, termasuk para tamu yang tak pernah dipedulikan dari mana datangnya. Ia mendengar sekali lagi. Di kota setiap orang baru selalu ditetak dengan tanya: Siapa nama? Dari mana? Di sini orang tak peduli Mak Pin datang dari mana. Tak peduli Mak Pin gagu. Tak peduli sekalipun dia kelahiran neraka.

Do you still throw spears at each other? (to Australian Aborigines during a visit to Queensland)

Guess who puzzled their minds and freed their imaginations.

Labyrinths cannot make themselves impossible.

The secret of discovery begins with looking at the usual things with unusual curiosity.

He that knows nothing, doubts nothing.