Quotes About Curiosity

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right: it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Why would there be a morgue in a sports center?" Charlie asked. "Because Soylent Green is people?

Hold on," she murmured, and he briefly wondered if she ever used that particular tone of voice in bed. Mitch snorted, trying to stop where his thoughts were headed—again. "Yeah, yeah. Show me what ya got, sweet—Mother of God Almighty!

You know what they say about curiosity? That it stabbed the annoying biker girl over and over and over again until she spit up blood.

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

preferring actual ignorance to the appearance of it, he did not ask.

drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

I hated to hound the guy at the sausage table, but I wanted to learn the difference between saucisson à l'âne, donkey sausage, and saucisson du taureau, bull sausage. That donkey stuff tastes, well, just a little different.

Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.