Quest for Understanding Quotes

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

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

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.

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

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

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...

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

Even a genius has his questions.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

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

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.

Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.