curiosity

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.

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.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

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.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.