top of page
Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope

"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."

Standard 
 Customized
"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."

Exlpore more Curiosity quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Do not just accept anything without questioning."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"When you're an astronomer, you always have stars in your eyes."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine," Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied."

Explore more quotes by Alexander Pope

Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope
"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope
"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope
"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."
Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot."
Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope
"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart."
Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope
"In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel."
Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope
"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."
Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope
"The feast of reason and the flow of soul."
Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope
"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian."
Quote_1.png
Alexander Pope
"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."
bottom of page