Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

The constant happiness is curiosity.

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

We're all curious about a lot of things.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Curiosity is the main energy.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.