Quotes About Curiosity

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.

See him as the child he was.

He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

What you don't know would make a great book.

Thanks to generations of curious, daring, intrepid explorers of the past, we may know enough, soon enough, to chart safe passage for ourselves far into the future.

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

I know little of magic, Lady,' he said haltingly. 'I am but a woodcutter's son, and there is much that is not given to men to understand; but of this I am sure: there is more to things than we imagine. Beyond the stars are worlds without number, perhaps, and had I never sought to look beyond my own I should be the poorer for it.

Yet if they kept on, without knowing, then someday they might discover something totally new and significant just from having followed a different path, something Elana's people had missed. Thousands of years from now, the natives of this world might do the same! If that was how it worked, then it was worth whatever sacrifice anybody had to make.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius.

He used his intellect as he used his legs: to carry him somewhere else. He studied astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, numerology, fortification, divination, organ building, metallurgy, medicine, perspective, the kabbala, toxicology, philosophy, and jurisprudence. He kept his interest in anatomy and did a dissection whenever he could get hold of a body. He learned Arabic, Catalan, Polish, Icelandic, Basque, Hungarian, Romany, and demotic Greek.

When I had exhausted our library I made several excursions—to Saint Andrew's, to Oxford, to the German Universities—and read over the shoulders of mortal students. It was sometimes very trying not being able to turn the pages for myself, since I was a quicker reader than they; but invisibility had its drawbacks.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

[Learning] is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust . . . never fear . . . and never dream of regretting.

There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it...

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

Skepticism is fine, but don't pass by a once in a lifetime opportunity to uncover a treasure because of it.