Jane Wagner Quotes

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

All men desire by nature to know.

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

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for themselves an idea of the world in which they live. But we alone question our surroundings.

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

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.

Man by Nature desires to know.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

Curiosity urges you on-driving force.

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

Love is desire for knowledge.

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.