Quotes About Curiosity

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Y aves y bichos y pejes se mantienen de mil modos: pero el hombre en su acomodo es curioso de oservar: es el que sabe llorar y es el que los come a todos.

La cultura es el fruto de la curiosidad, de esa inquietud misteriosa que invita a mirar el fondo de todos los abismos.

La curiosidad intelectual es la negación de todos los dogmas y la fuerza motriz del libre examen

La historia no se ocupa del pasado. Le pregunta al pasado cosas que le interesan al hombre vivo.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

I was always, luckily, only a reader.

Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

Like the meaning of my name, questions follow me wherever I go.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

I like to keep my books in my library, he said, 'and I like my library to get bigger rather than smaller.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them

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I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. —David Sedaris

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.

They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

He who has imagination without learning has feet but no wings.