Quotes About Curiosity

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

Specifically, Kahan identified "scientific curiosity." That's different from scientific literacy. The two qualities are correlated, of course, but there are curious people who know rather little about science (yet), and highly trained people with little appetite to learn more.

curious person, however, enjoys being surprised and hungers for the unexpected.

These examples should be models for communication, precisely because they inspire curiosity. "How does money influence politics?" is not an especially engaging question, but "If I were running for president, how would I raise lots of money with few conditions and no scrutiny?" is much more intriguing.

wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a

If we want to make the world add up, we need to ask questions -- open-minded, genuine questions. And once we start asking them, we may find it is delightfully difficult to stop.

Level 4," Lachance said. "Lingerie, footwear, monsters, and beasties.

Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

Poetically if not geographically, the Kuria Murias belong to the same harmonious archipelago as Serendip, the Celebes, Tahiti and Taprobane, Andaman and Nicobar, the Isle of Grain and the Isle of Dogs. I had fallen in love with the name years before, in the atlas.

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.

Temos demasiado pouca diversão na maioria da aprendizagem formal e as pessoas estão ansiosas por isso. Se não conseguimos inspirar curiosidade é provável que estejamos no caminho errado.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn — the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

What made him shift each boot from one step to the next one down, and then the other boot to the one below that, was the thought of being able to read books. He had of course seen the things many times, and had seen people peer into pages and then raise their heads knowing things they hadn't known before.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

knowledge is better than wonder

Duffy nodded civilly, reflecting, though, that the surest way to get Aurelianus to talk about chickens was to ask him about cheese.

Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.

Here, said the nuggety bald fixture. You look dry as a camel's cookie.

When Mrs Ross asked him what he was thinking of, he shrugged. But he was thinking of the time he'd climbed the steeple of a church when he was ten-and had seen, for the very first time, the world spread out around him like a gift.

His curiosity aroused by seeing Sophia read the Bible, Douglass asked her to teach him. Naively, she agreed. He caught on rapidly, and Sophia was proud enough of her student to mention his progress to Hugh. He exploded. Literacy, he cried, would "spoil the best nigger in the world," and "unfit him to be a slave.

His chief failing is a lack of curiosity." "I'd have said no imagination." "All beings possess imagination to varying degrees," Thrawn said. "It can be encouraged and nurtured, or can sometimes shine out in moments of stress. But curiosity is a choice. Some wish to have it. Others don't.

To live in a world fairly dripping with technology and yet have no concept of how or why any of it worked—it seemed incomprehensible.

I've never had to find a hard question in my life," she countered tartly. "They've always found me first.