Marcel Proust Quotes

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

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

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Curiosity must be kept alive.

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

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

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.

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 more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

I like to learn about things.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.