Quotes About Curiosity

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them: those we spent with a favourite book.

Beware of the man of one book.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.

Getting bored is not allowed.

Boredom is useful to me when I notice it and think: Oh I'm bored; there must be something else I want to be doing ... boredom acts as an initiator of originality by pushing me into new activities or new thoughts.

Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention.

Boys will be boys.

A cat may look at a king.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.