Quotes About Curiosity

Is that the moon? I have been told it's more fertile.

Each picture in the room beyond contained a book. Sometimes they were many, or prominent; some I had to study for some time before I saw the corner of a binding thrusting from the pocket of a woman's skirt or realized that some strangely wrought spool held words spun like thread.

You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered by the flight, you are impatient to get out and sample the streets, the life, the action.

So far I've only read a page but I like that page a lot.

Estamos aquí para morirnos de aburrimiento y luego preguntarnos cómo es posible aburrirse tanto.

The best walk is where you get lost then return. this reminds me of all the random hikes i take that make my soul happy and days when i was little that mom would take us out for sunday drives with the purpose of getting lost just because the adventure was fun (i still enjoy this...) love my mom. thanks, linda :)

For he would rather have, by his bedside, twenty books, bound in black or red, of Aristotle and his philosophy, than rich robes or costly fiddles or gay harps.

Lust is addicted to novelty.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife. You'll find God's plenty all you could desire; Of the remainder, better not enquire.

But we'll try anything once hot or cold; A man must be a young food, or an old

When the instincts to virtue signal are combined with curiosity about science, open-mindedness about values and viewpoints, rationality about priorities and policies, and strategic savvy about ways and means, then wonderful things can happen.

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

In vain do we extend our view into the heavens, and pry into the entrails of the earth, in vain do we consult the writings of learned men, and trace the dark footsteps of antiquity; we need only draw the curtain of words, to behold the fairest tree of knowledge, whose fruit is excellent, and within the reach of our hand.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Alguns homens vêem as coisas como são, e dizem 'Por quê?' Eu sonho com as coisas que nunca foram e digo 'Por que não ?