Quotes about Curiosity

No wonder there is no wonder. We've figured it all out.

That child would stumble over the pattern in a rug.

For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are often used in tandem. Curiosity fidgets, is hard to satisfy, looks for answers even before forming questions.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read.

if you can read, you can learn just about anything.

Curiosity is the far nobler sister of novelty. Curiosity invokes study. By definition, it is "interest leading to inquiry."[1] It does not look for diamonds on blades of grass; it looks for dew. If it's looking for diamonds, it mines. Curiosity isn't satisfied to climb a hill and then move on. To borrow words from Deuteronomy, it digs copper from them (Deuteronomy 8:9).

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

Something that is characteristic of me is the breadth of my interests.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.