Quotes About Curiosity

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

Can we   conceive that man was so placed in the earth as to be ignorant of his   own origin, and of the origin of those things which he enjoyed?

indeed, vanity joined with pride can be detected in the fact e(b)that, in seeking God, miserable men do not rise above themselves as they should, but measure him by the yardstick of their own carnal stupidity, and neglect sound investigation; thus out of curiosity they fly off into empty speculations. They do not therefore apprehend God as he offers himself, bbut imagine him as they have fashioned him in their own presumption.

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

My final two cents worth of advice is to develop an all-consuming curiosity for things both exotic and ordinary. Read, observe, analyze, and become involved with a variety of interests. Study, practice, delve, probe, investigate, and above all, be flexible. Keep an open mind. The world is changing fast. Don't get caught in the corner of the ring. - Ward Kimball

Book-burners try to destroy ideas that differ from their own. Reading does the opposite. It encourages doubt... reading releases you from the limits of yourself.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Market failure isn't an intellectual curiosity. In many areas of the economy, such as health care, high technology, and finance, it is endemic.

I simply will never stop learning because I don´t want to tie myself just to one way of making a living.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

A good question is never answered.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new.

You must be careful where you step. And you must be ready for what you might find.

On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all.

Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.

If cats could count, they'd start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.