Stephen Fry Quotes

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

We're all curious about a lot of things.

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

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?

To wonder is to begin to understand.

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

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

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

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

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

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

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?

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

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

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

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

I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.