“Wisdom. No match for the troublemaker Curiosity.”
David Brin book Glory Season
Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 16 (p. 265)
“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom." by Françoise Sagan?
Françoise Sagan34
French writer 1935–2004Related quotes
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“The beginning of all wisdom is acknowledgement of facts.”
Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870–1956) 7th President of Finland
Source: Quoted on the Paasikivi monument in Helsinki, supposedly originating from Thomas Carlyle
“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”
Graham Greene book A Sort of Life
A Sort of Life, ch. 7, sct. 1 (1971)
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
Source: Why I Am An Agnostic and Other Essays
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
“Confusion is the beginning of wisdom.”
A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 60, “Values and Knowledge” (p. 236)
“To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: That is the first thing to learn — not to seek. When you seek you are really only window-shopping. The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality, or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosophers or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself and that is why you must know yourself. Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist