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
People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.
—Dagobert D. Runes
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
—James Thurber
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
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
—George Bernard Shaw