Quotes about Curiosity

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

Look to the stars and from them learn.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.