Quotes about Curiosity
My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
- Albert Einstein
The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder.
- Aristotle
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
- Aristotle
Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. Nicomachean Ethics
- Aristotle
To be learning something new is ever the chief pleasure of mankind .
- Aristotle
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Das Leben ist unendlich seltsamer als alles, was der menschliche Geist erfinden könnte.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.
- George Eliot
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
- Isabel Allende