Quotes about Curiosity

A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.

And I call to mankind, Be not curious about God, For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God, No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God, and about death. I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least...

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested in fundamental science.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?