Quotes about Curiosity

As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Human beings are curious, and especially curious about other human beings.

2. STUDY THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

6. Finally, TURN THE PAGES, DIPPING IN HERE AND THERE, READING A PARAGRAPH OR TWO, SOMETIMES SEVERAL PAGES IN SEQUENCE, NEVER MORE THAN THAT.

1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?

Ask questions while you read—questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading.

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Try to learn something about everything.

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.