Quotes About Curiosity

At 12, still digesting every non-religious book he could get his hands on, he memorized a Latin vocabulary book.

But aside from Willy's skill at learning another language which his father did not know enough to appreciate, his only distinction in schooling was mathematics. Numbers came easily to him. And it was not just simple mathematics but anything that was curious. Many nights in bed he pondered numbers.

History teacher Bob Alston's "expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to generate a roadmap to guide his new learning. He was an expert at cultivating puzzlement it was Alston's ability to stand back from first impressions, to question his quick leaps of mind, to keep track of his questions that together pointed him in the direction of new learning.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

Having Jude is like having a dictionary the size of a man beside me. I open him up and ask him all sorts of questions.

Something in knowing is not quite as wonderful as not knowing. The

What, she wondered, was going to happen to people who think they know everything? What's going to happen without chance?

El said that kids today never sit still long enough to see how the river changes. What, she wondered, was going to happen to people who think they know everything? What's going to happen without chance? Good question.

To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.

a man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.  

The secret of happiness. Those dancing kiddies have got it. I want it. I want to know what makes 'em so happy.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.