Quotes about Curiosity

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

questions about the future

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Why do we not put aside such curiosity and cling simply to the words of Christ, willing to remain in ignorance of what takes place here and content that the real body of Christ is present by virtue of the words?72 Or is it necessary to comprehend the manner of the divine working in every detail?

If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of those branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

The time when Christ was 33, so I could see if he really got up from the grave. Or maybe I'd go back to the time of Cleopatra, before Marc Antony got tight with her. I'd try to hit on her first.

The purpose of an open mind, [Chesterton] said, is like the purpose of an open mouth: that it might be shut again on something solid. Yes, we must be free to ask questions. But when we hear a good answer we must be prepared to recognize it as such, and not be so keen on keeping all the questions open that we shy away from an answer because we so like having an open mind. That is the way to intellectual, as well as spiritual, starvation.

To be human is to write, to compose, to create, and to dream. So is to think, to test, and to know why.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.