Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. —Eugene S. Wilson More about this quote Tags: curiosity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “curiosity” By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: curiosity popularity confusione masterpiece Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home. —Dagobert D. Runes More about this quote Tags: ignorance people perception curiosity distance travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: questions knowledge curiosity certainty doubt answers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us? —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge curiosity trust fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: love curiosity foolishness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: curiosity popularity confusione masterpiece Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home. —Dagobert D. Runes More about this quote Tags: ignorance people perception curiosity distance travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: questions knowledge curiosity certainty doubt answers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us? —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge curiosity trust fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: love curiosity foolishness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email