Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. — Keith Johnstone
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have. — Pema Chodron
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine.… — Bertrand Russell
Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will.… — Winston Churchill
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. — Bertrand Russell
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth,… — Carl Safina
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or… — Henry David Thoreau
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made. — Richard P. Feynman
I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as… — Albert Einstein
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries? — George Meredith
In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere. — Maxim Gorky
If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction… — Daniel J. Boorstin
But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the… — Edmund Burke
A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets… — John Stuart Mill
In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man.… — C. Wright Mills
Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand… — Daniel Berrigan
If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices. — Guo Xiang
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change. — Henry Ford
Wonder implies the desire to learn. — Aristotle
To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery. — Louis Pasteur
Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation! — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the… — Samuel Johnson
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief… — Samuel Johnson

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