Quotes about Curiosity

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

here I was, eager for Learning and intellectual companionship—maybe even a disputation or two.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.

Indeed, vanity joined with pride can be detected in the fact that, in seeking God, miserable men do not rise above themselves as they should, but measure him by the yardstick of their own carnal stupidity, and neglect sound investigation; thus out of curiosity they fly off into empty speculations. They do not therefore apprehend God as he offers himself, but imagine him as they have fashioned him in their own presumption.

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

Consequently, we know the most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of his essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate him in his works whereby he renders himself near and familiar to us, and in some manner communicates himself.