Quotes about Curiosity

To know life, one must love many things.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

Who has more reason to worship than the astronomer who has seen the stars? Than the surgeon who has held a heart? Than the oceanographer who has pondered the depths?

No wonder there is no wonder. We've figured it all out.

That child would stumble over the pattern in a rug.

For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are often used in tandem. Curiosity fidgets, is hard to satisfy, looks for answers even before forming questions.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read.

if you can read, you can learn just about anything.

Curiosity is the far nobler sister of novelty. Curiosity invokes study. By definition, it is "interest leading to inquiry."[1] It does not look for diamonds on blades of grass; it looks for dew. If it's looking for diamonds, it mines. Curiosity isn't satisfied to climb a hill and then move on. To borrow words from Deuteronomy, it digs copper from them (Deuteronomy 8:9).

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.