Quotes about Curiosity
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
— St. Augustine
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
— St. Augustine
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
— Samuel Johnson
The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
— Samuel Johnson
My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
— Albert Einstein
The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder.
— Aristotle
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
— Aristotle
Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.
— Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. Nicomachean Ethics
— Aristotle
To be learning something new is ever the chief pleasure of mankind .
— Aristotle
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.
— Arthur Conan Doyle