Quotes About Curiosity

Any word or group of words that makes the reader ask "Why?" or "How?" also serves as an inducement for the reader to go on.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

I want my life to be mystifying' she declared, although she didn't know what she meant

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

Simon would disapprove, in the way that people who lacked life experience always disapproved of others having adventures they had so far missed out on.

Here is my recommendation: wherever possible, treat anything you can as a mystery. Why? Because mysteries make life better. I love mysteries, including the desperately-craving-an-answer part, more than I love their solutions. Definite answers shut down possibilities, while an unsolved puzzle ignites our imagination and invites us to think, 'What if it turns out to be something shocking and unguessable that will well and truly blow my mind?'.

Dom and I have often agreed that trees are like fish – we ought to know more than we do about the differences between the various types, but we've reached our forties and can still only identify weeping willows and salmon with any certainty.

What happened to you, baby?

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?

If we are to provide our students with skills for success, we must imbue a love of learning. If

Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze — and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence.

Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly. He froze. "I can't figure out what in the name of God's labia majora you think you're doing...but I'm impressed by how well you're doing it in the dark. You must have eyes like a cat.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Waiting for the operation, there was a gentle tap on the door. In came a strapping nurse. 'Good morning', she shrilled, whipped back the bedclothes, upped with his nightshirt, grabbed his willy, lathered furiously around it till it looked like the Eddystone Lighthouse in a storm, then shaved the whole area till it looked like an oven-ready chicken. 'Excuse me, nurse', said Looney, 'why did you knock?

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.

Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.

Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount?

A free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement.

Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.