Quotes About Curiosity

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

the school was the problem, August thought. Maybe everybody wants a science lesson if they're sitting in the middle of one of the greatest geothermal wonders of the world. Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault. Maybe we made the first mistake.

Maybe the school was the problem, August thought. Maybe everybody wants a science lesson if they're sitting in the middle of one of the greatest geothermal wonders of the world. Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care.

curiosity has its glue-like qualities.

I have no idea why time does what it does. Or why people do what we do. It's all a mystery to me.

There's so much I see every day and don't really understand and I just don't stop to think about the fact that I don't really understand.

If there's some hidden part of me that thinks like that, I'd rather not go searching for it.

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More things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophies.

I like your cats," Chloe says. "How many cats do you have?

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault.

Maybe the school was the problem, August thought. Maybe everybody wants a science lesson if they're sitting in the middle of one of the greatest geothermal wonders of the world. Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault. Maybe we made the first mistake.

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care.

When my parents called "lights out," I was the kid under the covers, finishing my book quietly by flashlight. This is passion that can't be taught. Encouraged. But not taught.

Raymond wondered how it would feel to live in a world where a flight of stairs stood as a massive

Biblical stories play an important role in the elementary child's search for answers.

Imagine children watching as the Levites took down the tabernacle or put it up again. There was mystery as the Levites carried the tabernacle furnishings.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.

I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.