Quotes About Curiosity

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder. (Metaphysics, I, 982b 18–19)

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Who, however, is in doubt 'and' awe (thaumázein) about a matter doesn't believe in the thing to begin with. That is why the friend of Stories (mÅ·thos) is also in a certain way a philosopher; because the Story arises out of awe.' (Aristotle's Metaphysics: Book I. Part II)

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.

to be learning something is the greatest of pleasures of mankind, however small their capacity for it; the reason of the delight in seeing the picture is that one is at the same time as learning— gathering the meaning of things

The things about which we inquire are equal in number to the things we understand.

Happiness extends just as far as study extends, and the more someone studies, the happier he is...

to learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

To be learning something new is ever the chief pleasure of mankind .

Innocence is very erotic.

Oh . . . I'm prying, aren't I? Mrs. Madrigal smiled. I hope it means we're friends.

When shall men learn to never touch what has been hidden.

Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which you can't tell what is going to happen next. But in some of the most tedious novels ever written you can't tell what is going to happen next--and you don't care a fig what is going to happen next.

It is a fine thing to be a walking encyclopaedia of philosophy, but if you happen to have no liking for philosophy, and to have a like for the natural history of street-cries, much better leave philosophy alone, and take to street-cries.

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

What are you doing, Dave?

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.

I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.