Quotes About Curiosity

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

Student interest is directly proportional to the depth and breadth of teachers' knowledge; and student interest is vital to effective teaching.

Isn't this what we want to know about those whom we care about? What is it like, we wonder at each meeting, in shared meals and secrets and silences, with each touch and glance, to be you?

Im my native country I successfully avoided seeing the Grand Canyon; I avoided the Painted Desert, my nurse did not manage to drag me to Niagara. With all respect to Alexander von Humboldt, I will not get myself off this contraption to look at a tree however interesting.

Writing is the ability to ask yourself questions and wait for the answers.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.