Quotes About Curiosity

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We must note the curious fact that people are not content with what is simple to understand, but go straight for the more complex problems which they will perhaps never grasp. What is simple to grasp is quite usable and useful, and can keep us occupied for a whole lifetime if it satisfies and stimulates us.

Într-adev?r ?tiu multe, dar a? vrea s? ?tiu totul.

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

As long as you have a window, life is exciting.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

I've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art.

A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions.