Quotes About Curiosity

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Imagination is the highest form of research.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

Play is the highest form of research.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.