Virginia Postrel Quotes

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

I always want to know about things.

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

No one is dumb who is curious.

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

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

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.