Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.
The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer
I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.
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.
The most important thing about education is appetite.
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.
You have to have curiosity in life. The moment you don't have any more curiosity, then don't do anything. Retire and stay in your house.
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
