Quotes About Curiosity

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Visit any public school toilet and look at the graffiti. You'll see that when children are interested, they can learn to spell quite complicated words.

Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.

Education can be glorious. At its best, to quote Roman philosopher Lucretius, it is a "voyage in mind throughout infinity.

Mona leaned over and picked it up. Inside were hairy spiders. She shook the bottle. No, it was empty.

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. "His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat.

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?

Kim: Hey... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword. Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?

The Nature of the Beast. I have always been curious about other human species

Avidum genus auricularum.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

You can't learn less.

Every child is born a genius.

At the moment I have very little evidence and lots of theories. I'm itching to reverse the proportions.

And the only mode in which you can derive even a tolerable idea of his living contour, is by going a whaling yourself; but by so doing, you run no small risk of being eternally stove and sunk by him. Wherefore, it seems to me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan.

Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?

But, besides the Feegeeans, Tongatobooarrs, Erromanggoans, Pannangians, and Brighggians, and besides the wild specimens of the whaling-craft which unheeded reel about the streets, you will see other sights still more curious, certainly more comical.

It is not not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all. - Why then do you try to enlarge your mind? Subtilize it.