Quotes About Curiosity

Do not believe too quickly!

Psyche looked up eagerly. "Voice?" she said. "Is that you?

a result, we are born pattern-spotters, seeing faces in the clouds, ghosts in the shadows, and mythical beasts in the stars. And we learn best when there are pictures to look at.

I try to be interested in very nearly everything. I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

Kate Saunders

She is quick and curious and playful and strong.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

He looked at the sky once more. Men had gone out there, he thought in wonder, and couldn't think why. Singly and in small groups they had gone into strange lands, across wide seas, had climbed mountains where no human foot had ever trod. And he couldn't think why they had done these things. What impulse had driven them from their own kind to perish alone, or among strangers.

I hope I'm always learning something.

And to-day how could a man think whole-heartedly of mechanism, even though it was his proper and satisfactory job, when by walking a mile or two and crawling down a hole, he could get in touch with lost civilisations and the thought-mechanism of complex human beings?

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.

But an attentive researcher--like you--might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions.

The Mouser sighed. The moment had come, he knew, as it always did, when outward circumstances and inner urges commanded an act, when curiosity and fascination tipped the scale of caution, when the lure of a vision and an adventure became so great and deep-hooking that he must respond to it or have his inmost self-respect eaten away.

Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.

What the public wants is a little intellectual 'kick', and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics.

Parents stress the importance of learning to their children and carefully monitor their progress. Not infrequently, those children are well ahead of their Christian schoolmates in terms of intellectual curiosity and persistent diligence.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

Highly creative people don't necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.