Curiosity Quote by Thomas Aquinas Download Open image “Wonder is the desire for knowledge.” — Thomas Aquinas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curiosity Desire Knowledge Learning Wonder
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety;… — Samuel Horsley Copy Share Image
Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless,… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Yet no-one can say that God has not a Word, for it would follow that God is most foolish.” — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or… — Thomas Aquinas 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