Quotes About Curiosity

The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.

SELL YOUR CLEVERNESS AND CREATE A SENSE OF AWE

Learning never stops. Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early.

My only hope for my future is I learn to dot the landscape of my life once more with question marks instead of periods. To turn judgments into queries. To turn "this" into "that?" To make every problem a maze. To be like a six-year-old.

Mastery begins when formal education ends. Find the topic that sets your heart on fire. Then combust.

there is always something new to learn in this surreal art of being human.

natural state for human beings. We need to explore. We're curious. We want to adapt constantly to new environments and use the part of our brain that evolved specifically so we could create new works of art or new productions.

People do what they want until they are injured like a kid putting his fingers on the stove.

Go to the bookstore. Find a topic you would be willing to read five hundred books on.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

Whose little boy are you?

Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden, Jacques said. And then: I wonder why.

You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall, because you don't want to know.

I remember what it was...to be young, very young. When everything, touching and tasting-everything- was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete.

Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.

One of the reasons. . . I think that our youth is so badly educated--and it is inconceivably badly educated--is because education demands a certain daring, a certain independence of mind. You have to teach some people to think; and in order to teach some people to think, you have to teach them to think about everything. There mustn't be something they cannot think about. If there is one thing they cannot think about, very shortly they can't think about anything.

When you're writing, you're trying to find out something which you don't know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don't want to know, what you don't want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.

It is really quite impossible to be affirmative about anything which one refuses to question; one is doomed to remain inarticulate about about anything which one hasn't, by an act of the imagination, made one's own.

I was often allowed to watch them drink their cocktails.

John looked with a child's impenetrable gravity into the preacher's face, as though he were turning this question over in his mind and would answer when he had thought it

Does she want you or does she not want you?' 'She went to Spain,' I said, 'to find out'. Giovanni open his eyes wide. He was indignant. 'To Spain. Why not to China? What is she doing, testing all the Spaniards and comparing them with you?

Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden,' Jacques said. And then: 'I wonder why.

I think it's better to know that you don't know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that's why so many people are so lost.

He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.