Quotes About Curiosity

What eventually set him apart was his mindset and drive. He never stopped being the curious, tinkering boy looking for new challenges.

Benjamin Barber, an eminent sociologist, once said, "I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures.… I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners." What

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That

They were self-effacing people who constantly asked questions and had the ability to confront the most brutal answers—that is, to look failures in the face, even their own, while maintaining faith that they would succeed in the end.

The great teachers believe in the growth of the intellect and talent, and they are fascinated with the process of learning.

They love to learn. And teaching is a wonderful way to learn. About people and how they tick. About what you teach. About yourself. And about life.

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, seek new strategies, and keep on learning.

A successful student is one whose primary goal is to expand their knowledge and their ways of thinking and investigating the world. They do not see grades as an end in themselves but as means to continue to grow.

think intelligence is something you have to work for . . . it isn't just given to you. . . . Most kids, if they're not sure of an answer, will not raise their hand to answer the question. But what I usually do is raise my hand, because if I'm wrong, then my mistake will be corrected. Or I will raise my hand and say, 'How would this be solved?' or 'I don't get this. Can you help me?' Just by doing that I'm increasing my intelligence.

his extreme love of learning and challenge.

If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

Michael must have started with a special ability, but, for me, the most outstanding feature is his extreme love of learning and challenge. His parents could not tear him away from his demanding activities. The same is true for every prodigy Winner describes. Most often people believe that the "gift" is the ability itself. Yet what feeds it is that constant, endless curiosity and challenge seeking.

In all of my teaching, I think about what I find fascinating and what I would love to learn more about. I use my teaching to grow, and that makes me, even after all these years, a fresh and eager teacher.

Children with the growth mindset, on the other hand, couldn't tear themselves away from the hard problems. These were their favorites and these were the ones they wanted to take home. "Could you write down the name of these puzzles," one child asked, "so my mom can buy me some more when these ones run out?

A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.

you want to know what I know and hear what I like to hear.

I wish there were a way for me to ask about a red ladle but it's not a normal question

T-shirt lifts just enough so that you can see my midsection—you need something to dream about—and

Did you kill me yet?" "Eat your fucking ice cream.

The internet has eliminated so much wonder and romance.