Quotes About Curiosity

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don't even know my next-door neighbor's name.

Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.

If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.

It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that is what I want to do when I grow up.

Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.