Quotes about Curiosity

Tension is living in the gap between certainty and uncertainty. We always begin with what we know, and are irresistibly drawn to what we don't know. We are inveterately curious. We are wired to grow, and all growth stretches us beyond our comfort level. Comfort is the absence of tension; growth requires a swim in murky, dangerous waters... Tension is the medium which we breathe everyday.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

What he was now seeing was the street lonely, savage, and cool. That was it: cool; he was thinking, saying aloud to himself sometimes, "I better move. I better get away from here." But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters

Now comes the mystery.

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Do cats eat bats?… Do bats eat cats?