Quotes About Curiosity

When I look back on most of my life, it breaks my heart that when my brain was unloading an endless pile of what ifs on me, it never asked, "What if I go do this thing that I want to do, and it's . . . fun? What if I enjoy myself, and I'm really glad I went?

On that day, the library was transformed from a confusing and intimidating collection of books into a thousand different portals through time and space to fantastic worlds for me to explore.*

So as you get older, and as your knowledge grows, don't ever stop learning. Stay curious.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

It would not bother me if another scientist wanted to reduce my thirst for knowledge to the biological function of a puppy who goes around sniffing at everything. Indeed, it would make me happy to be biologically compared to a lively and lovable puppy.

You did not know, Little Man, what a library is for.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Why did you stop working just now?" The answer from inside the lab was often, "How did you know?" to which we would reply, "We have a window to your soul.

Those who avoid the sin of intellectual sloth could be called "engaged.

A los que evitan el pecado de la pereza intelectual podríamos llamarlos «diligentes». Están más alerta, son intelectualmente más activos, están menos dispuestos a quedarse satisfechos con respuestas superficialmente sugerentes, y son más escépticos con sus intuiciones.

Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were before.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behaviours than from hearing surprising facts from the behaviour of others

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. However, it is also adaptive for the initial caution

Insa, cand au trecut de primele suburbii ale Berlinului si Humboldt si-a inchipuit cum Gauss a cercetat corpurile ceresti prin telescopul sau in tot acest timp - corpuri ceresti ale caror orbite pot fi descrise in formule simple -, n-a mai fost in stare sa spuna care dintre ei doi a ramas acasa si care a colindat lumea.

But why people? I asked. What does he care about people? He's a bear.

Non si lascia ai margini del proprio cammino un mistero, per quanto insignificante.

Žena je imala tanane, prili?no izvijene obrve. Haljina joj je otkrivala le?a i Gaus se pitao kako bi bilo pritisnuti usne na njih.

Humboldt disse che anche lui voleva viaggiare. Forster annuì. È un desiderio che provano in tanti, disse. E tutti se ne pentono. Perché? Perché non si ritorna mai.

Una collina di cui non si conosce l'altitudine è un'offesa per la ragione e mi inquieta. Senza esaminare costantemente la propria posizione, nessun uomo può progredire. Non si lascia ai margini del proprio cammino un mistero, per quanto insignificante.

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?