Saint Augustine Quotes About Curiosity

Quotes about: Curiosity

• Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

  Saint Augustine

  Discipline, Curiosity, Harsh

  "Confessions".

• A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

  Saint Augustine

  Discipline, Curiosity

• There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Temptation, Understanding

  "The day of judgment, part two" by Ian McEwan, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

• Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Discipline, Curiosity

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.17, Oxford Paperbacks

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