Curiosity Quote by Plutarch Download Open image ““The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.”” — Plutarch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curiosity Mind Psychology
“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting." Piutarch” — Pat Frayne Copy Share Image
“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs kindling.” — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Your mind has an equal empty space as in a piece of paper. So fill it with useful stuff.” — V B Eudaimonia Copy Share Image
“The mind is a mine. So often we revisit its winding, unsound caverns when we ought to stay out.” — Claire Vaye Watkins Copy Share Image
“The mind is certainly a very mysterious organ, I reflected, drawing my head in from the window, about which nothing whatever is known, though… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Your mind is not a solid state, your mind is a fluid. You can make it take on any shape.” — Sadguru Copy Share Image
“The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The… — Mike Carey & Peter Gross Copy Share Image
“There are certain thoughts that, no matter what, you have to keep inside.” — haruki murakami Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I am not… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image