Quotes about Curiosity
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
— GK Chesterton
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
— Victor Hugo
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
— Victor Hugo
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?
— Victor Hugo
As the place is worth seeing, nobody goes there.
— Victor Hugo
There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him who chances to be there! That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is like the dawn in the sky. It
— Victor Hugo
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
— Milan Kundera
The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.
— Milan Kundera
Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.
— Milan Kundera
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
— Samuel Johnson