Quotes about Curiosity

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Beware of the person of one book.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

The scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

Learning requires curiosity, exploration, evaluation, and dialogue. To be granted the product of knowledge without this process would violate what it means to be a creature.