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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.
- Dan Allender
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
- CS Lewis
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.
- William Faulkner
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
- William Faulkner
curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
- William Faulkner
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why
- William Hazlitt
Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.
- William James
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.
- Henri Matisse
Ignorance is the womb of monsters
- Henry Ward Beecher
Now comes the mystery.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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.
- Leonard Sweet
Do cats eat bats?… Do bats eat cats?
- Lewis Carroll