Quotes About Curiosity

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

I do not seek. I find.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

England is a nation of voyeurs.

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

What should they know of England, who only England know?

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.

"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! the flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.

Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.