#Curiosity

"Misfortunes make us wise"

"The knowledge of all things is possible"

"Curiosity is more important than knowledge."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute."

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

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

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

"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 the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom."

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

"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'"LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64"

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."

"It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense."

"A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum."

"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."

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

"Inventory:"Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."

"Isn't it a good thing we don't know everything? If we did, we wouldn't have a reason to have curiosity, and curiosity is like imagination, taking us back to the time when we were just children in our own fantasylands."