Quotes About Curiosity

The Land You Know, the Land You Do Not Know, and the Land You Cannot Even Imagine

What saves is the willingness to learn from what you don't know.

No eres de forma alguna tan solo lo que ya sabes, también eres todo lo que podrías saber si así lo quisieras.

It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness.

THE QUESTION IS WHY WOULD YOU EVER DO ANYTHING?

We can imagine new ways that things could be set right, and improved, even if we have everything we thought we needed. Even when satisfied, temporarily, we remain curious. We live within a framework that defines the present as eternally lacking and the future as eternally better. If we did not see things this way, we would not act at all.

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know.

They tend to ask lots of questions that they seem to already know the answers to. They make it a point to kick the tires of whatever it is you're selling, almost to the point of over-kicking them. They let out a large number of ooos and aahs and yups, to reinforce the sense that they're genuinely interested. When asked about their finances, they either become boisterously overconfident or unnecessarily vague.

Jordan Castillo Price

Mathematics is not just a sequence of computations to be carried out by rote until your patience or stamina runs out—although it might seem that way from what you've been taught in courses called mathematics.

Did she want me to kiss her? How weird was this going to be? Should it be like a real kiss, with passion and stuff? Or more of an experimental, pecking kind of deal?

Para eso se es joven, para probar cosas, para experimentar. Para eso y para desafiarlo todo.

Iban a cultivar un huerto estéril, un huerto muerto, pero ¿cómo podían saberlo su nunca habían salido de Tenochtitlan?

Você acha mesmo, Norminha, que ele está com algum interesse? Está coisa nenhuma: quem quer comer pão adormecido, carne moída, sobejo de defunto? Ninguém há de querer…

Quincas Berro Dágua, divertidíssimo, tentava passar rasteiras no cabo e no negro, estendia a língua para os transeuntes, enfiou a cabeça por uma porta para espiar, malicioso, um casal de namorados, pretendia, a cada passo, estirar-se na rua.

Today's philosophy questions are tomorrow's precision science experiments.

Una muchacha decente tiene que ver inmoralidades en el cine, porque hay cosas que es indispensable saber

La vampirología es un conocimiento extenso. Admirable si se tiene en cuenta que es el estudio de algo que no existe. Además de ser extenso, está muy extendido: la gente común y corriente sabe más de los vampiros que de los otomíes, por ejemplo.

Touch pain with great curiosity.

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.

Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates.

So many things fail to interest us, simply because they don't find in us enough surfaces on which to live, and what we have to do is to increase the number of planes in our mind, so that a much larger number of themes can find a place in it at the same time

La universidad ha arruinado desde hace generaciones la vitalidad del pensamiento y queda ya solo su momia y su esqueleto, como algo que se enseña de tal hora a tal hora. Pensar es otra cosa. Es terror, entusiasmo, desazón, curiosidad, profunda delicia, exaltación... es lo qu ese produce cuando el vivir se estira, se acrece y siendo vivir es más que vivir Ortega y Gasset A la Biografia de Jordi Gracia

Everything in the world is strange and marvellous to well-open eyes.