Quotes About Curiosity

All things considered, wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

She ran her hands across the bark, imagining herself at the foot of some planet-traversing colossus who was standing still to allow her up for a visit.

Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, "What if the world was round?

Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

Okay." The boy placed his hands on the table. "The thing is … I died before I got to see real live tits. Not just on the Internet." He hurried to add, "I wouldn't touch you or nothing. Obviously. But even if I could, I wouldn't do that to you." He looked at his hands as he dropped them into his lap. "I just want to see.

You want me to flash you" I said He nodded vigorously, like I'd asked if he wanted fries with that. "And then you'll pass on?" "That's all I want. So, yeah." I could almost believe that a fourteen-year-old boy could find deep spiritual peace from a pair of boobs.

Education is not just about learning facts, but about learning how to learn.

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.

Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

People think they want to know. Actually, if you ask—-how much would you pay to know, the answer is not much. . . . Do you care how your refrigerator works? No, as long as there's a repairman around when it breaks down. Nobody really cares.

In this game, mistakes and errors are good. They help us uncover new relationships.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

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Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?

Me asomo a la ventana, con temor de ver lo que no quiero ver.

mira con curiosidad la soledad del cuarto, la soledad de su propia alma;

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

So at about age 10, Albert started to teach himself. He was going to read as much about science as he could.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.