Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

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

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

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

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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.

Write about what you want to know.

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

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

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.