Quotes about Curiosity
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
- Charles Kettering
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.
- George Eliot
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
- Henry Ward Beecher
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
- Victor Hugo
Only those who seek shall find.
- Robin Sharma
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
- George Eliot
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
- Walt Whitman
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.
- Albert Einstein
I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
- Winston Churchill