Quotes About Curiosity

It's okay if you don't like science," he said, "but that doesn't mean you can just ignore things you don't understand. It'll come back to haunt you.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?

Why do we believe in things we cannot see?

In the dream house, the boy listened for the monster under his bed.

Never enter a toy shop after midnight.

Substantial empirical evidence indicates that individual differences in thinking dispositions and intelligence are far from perfectly correlated. Many different studies involving thousands of subjects have indicated that measures of intelligence display only moderate to weak correlations (usually less than .30) with some thinking dispositions (for example, actively open-minded thinking, need for cognition) and near zero correlations with others (such as conscientiousness, curiosity, diligence).

Knowledge is a location; Questions are a journey. Knowledge

Knowledge can be superior; Questions require humility. Knowledge

Take a deep and boundless curiosity about things outside your own profession and comfort zone.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.

The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I don't know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.

You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him." "That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, 'Why are bats furry?'" "I will. You just wait.

J: You will not believe what Mom is doing. M: Ballroom dancing lessons? Hot-air balloon classes?

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

Instead, I designed the unit with one question in mind: What is in the best interest of my students?

Sometimes it is safer to read maps with your feet.

I did ask her last week why she needs to do meditating when her life is so totally unstressful, and she absolutely burst out laughing for some weird reason.