Curiosity — Page 2

“The most important thing in life is to have a good question and a love of it.”

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, but one who asks the right questions.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.”

“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.”

“All men by nature desire to know.”

“It is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”

“Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do.”

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“Curiosity killed the cat.”

“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not remain a fool forever.”

“The great obstacle to progress is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“There is no book so bad that it is not good for something.”

“A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”

“Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I appear to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, picking up a shell or a pretty pebble, while the great ocean of truth lay before me.”

“Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football.”

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”