Top 84 Curiosity Knowledge Quotes
#1. We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.
Benjamin Franklin
#2. The New Economy brings the need to tap people's curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#3. The human curiosity is as if an ant which seeks knowledge and walks over the books of science.
Toba Beta
#4. Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.
Josh Hanagarne
#5. A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
Karen Blixen
#6. The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
Oswald Chambers
#7. A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
Umberto Eco
#8. Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
David Hume
#9. Tolkien regretted "the degeneration of real curiosity and enthusiasm," and called for research motivated by love of knowledge rather than hunger for a job.
Philip Zaleski
#10. Curiosity is thought to be a natural trait among the Fae, leading to knowledge of the world around us.
Anna Kyss
#11. In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#12. The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.
C.S. Lewis
#13. Look back with compassion, look forward with curiosity, but live for the present moment with wonder and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#14. When people are uneducated, or simply lack curiosity to seek knowledge, change appears as a frightening unknown. Such fear leads to aggression, even violence.
Jean Sasson
#15. Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.
Samuel Johnson
#16. Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
Samuel Horsley
#17. Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.
Jasper Fforde
#18. The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
Jim Elliot
#19. Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.
Eric Greitens
#20. All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
Geoff Dyer
#21. The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.
Mortimer J. Adler
#22. Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity. One inspired teacher can alter a student for life by instilling curiosity.
Deepak Chopra
#23. Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge.
Eraldo Banovac
#24. Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt.
Joshua Neik
#25. Knowledge is the most essential ingredient of life, and it comes from curiosity.
Debasish Mridha
#26. All great acquisitions come from voluntary thought" was Elizabeth's guiding principle. She would not cultivate any motive for learning in her students besides curiosity, claiming that study for the sake of reward or in fear of punishment produced "superficial rather than profound" knowledge.
Megan Marshall
#27. All knowledge meets an end at the question ' ... Why?
Criss Jami
#28. Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson
#29. Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections.
Baris Gencel
#30. It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.
Jeanne DuPrau
#31. Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It's the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.
Zander Sherman
#32. Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
Roger Ebert
#33. Do according to your capability.
Act according to your capacity.
Go according to your curiosity.
Be according to your possibility.
Debasish Mridha
#34. If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#35. Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
Linus Pauling
#36. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Rachel Carson
#37. [Parker J.] Palmer points out that knowledge today is driven by two motives, curiosity and control. Curiosity gives us pure science, and control gives us technology. Then he asserts that there is a third component that is regularly disregarded but essential to true knowledge--compassion, or love.
Albert Greene
#38. I like to feel dumb. That's how I know there's more in the world than me.
Susan Sontag
#40. I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
Charles Baudelaire
#41. He experiences a connection where knowledge does not interfere with wonder.
Sherry Turkle
#42. More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which is running with enormous speed.
Baris Gencel
#43. I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.
Umberto Eco
#44. In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.
Ernest Starling
#45. Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
John Locke
#46. Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
Criss Jami
#47. Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
Kevin Mitnick
#48. Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity - even if it had killed the cat - is king.
Kim Harrison
#50. Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.
Isaac Asimov
#51. The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
Isaac Asimov
#52. And now you see why some facts, some pieces of knowledge, have to be snuffed out as soon as they form. Curiosity would blow across such embers and burn this silo to the ground.
Hugh Howey
#53. I am not trying to teach you anything but trying to ignite the fire of curiosity for knowledge and wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it
Alain De Botton
#55. Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.
Alan Watts
#56. There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
Stefan Molyneux
#57. Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
Iris Murdoch
#58. An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
Marie Stopes
#61. Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except ... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.
Floyd Dell
#62. Ignorance; lack of knowledge or lack of curiosity.
Roberto Llamas
#63. Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see
everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.
D.H. Lawrence
#65. Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.
Marilyn Johnson
#66. When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.
Cornelia Funke
#67. The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.
Vartan Gregorian
#68. Greatness always indicates simplicity. Wisdom always results from curiosity.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.
Gloria Steinem
#70. Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.
Blaise Pascal
#72. Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
John F. Kennedy
#73. It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.
Philip Kitcher
#75. There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#76. Optimistic curiosity and persistent goal oriented action bring more success than anything else.
Debasish Mridha
#77. I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
Stephen Fry
#78. Some seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge: that is curiosity. Others seek knowledge that they may themselves be known: that is vanity. But there are still others who seek knowledge in order to serve and edify others, and that is charity." The
J. Budziszewski
#79. That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.
Daniel C. Dennett
#80. Curiosity is a call from knowledge.
Toba Beta
#82. Knowledge comes from curiosity; wisdom comes from experience.
Debasish Mridha
#83. If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin
the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#84. Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.
Todd William
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