Quotes about Curiosity

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

We say to our children, "Act like grown-ups," but Jesus said to the grown-ups, "Be like children".

Students today want to know about the devil, about witchcraft, about the occult. Many people do not know they are turning to Satan. They are being deluded.

The more man learns, the less he knows.

Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I

To young, inexperienced minds there seems to be a kind of fatal charm about the vague, the distant, and the mysterious.

So we keep asking, over and over Until a handful of earth Stops our mouths- But is that an answer?

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.

Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount?

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.