Curiosity Quote by Samuel Johnson

Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects,…

— Samuel Johnson

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction…

— Italo Calvino

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such…

— George Santayana

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when…

— Anthony Daniels

Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him

— Heinz von Foerster

“The person who judges you without getting to know you has revealed nothing about you but exposes everything about himself to the world. The…

— Crystal Evans

A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies…

— Richard Hofstadter

He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of…

— John Robert Seeley