Quotes About Curiosity

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.

To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.

Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!

What have we here—jinn or human?

Religion suppresses curiosity.

Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!

That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.

What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.

Something compelling and attractive surrounded walking anonymously at night in the streets of Arrakeen.

O conhecimento é uma aventura interminável na borda da incerteza.

As each day passes, you become increasingly unreal, more alien and remote from what I find myself to be on that new day. I am the only reality and, as you differ from me, you lose reality. The more curious I become, the less curious are those who worship me. Religion suppresses curiosity. What I do subtracts from the worshipper. Thus it is that eventually I will do nothing, giving it all back to frightened people who will find themselves on that day alone and forced to act for themselves.

Never follow a leader without asking your own questions.

Bene Gesserit Way, he opened his mind to Jacurutu, seeking to know nothing about it. Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.

stood up to get a better look at it. Paul leaned forward, staring at the machine. Scaled against the tiny projected

watching her crawl through the sphincter

Uproot your questions from the their ground and the dangling roots will be seen. More questions!

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?

Curiosity unsatisfied tended to create its own answers. Guesses were often more dangerous than facts.

What was it the pilgrims sought? Paul wondered. They said they came to a holy place. But they must know the universe contained no Eden source, no Tupile for the soul. They called Arrakis the place of the unknown where all mysteries were explained. This was a link between their universe and the next. And the frightening thing was that they appeared to go away satisfied…. What do they find here? Paul asked himself. (Dune Messiah Page 82)

When we think we know something, that's precisely the moment when we should look deeper into the thing.

Mutlak bilgiye sahip ç?kmak gaddarl?kt?r. Bilgi, belirsizliÄŸin k?y?s?ndaki sonsuz bir macerad?r.