Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

Imagination - that's the future for us.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

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

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

I'm a thinker and feeler and dreamer and explorer.

I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.

I believe in adventure and imagination, and I got that from my parents and the things I experienced as a child.