Quotes about Curiosity
The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
— Brendon Burchard
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own.
— Brennan Manning
This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.
— Henry David Thoreau
Live free, child of the mist—and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.
— Henry David Thoreau
What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.
— Henry David Thoreau
I did not feel lonesome; if I was not afraid; and the like. Others have been curious to learn what portion of my income I devoted to charitable purposes; and some, who have large families, how many poor children I maintained
— Henry David Thoreau
With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
— Herman Melville
Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
— Samuel Johnson
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
— Walt Disney
When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.
— Jane Goodall
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
— Dr. Seuss