Curiosity quotations

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◆ So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder…

- Jostein Gaarder99

◆ The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

- Henry James99

◆ Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.

- Bernard Beckett99

◆ Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.

- Daniel Quinn99

◆ there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

- Stephen Fry99

◆ It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.

- Luci Swindoll99

◆ There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don't have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren't lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

- Stephen Fry99

◆ Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

- Michel de Montaigne99

◆ I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

- Homer Hickam99

◆ My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

- Dylan Thomas99

◆ I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

- Charles Baudelaire99

◆ It is not what you say, it is the questions you ask that are important. The only stupid question is the one you dont ask.

- Vikrant Parsai99