Quotes About Curiosity

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask 'why?'

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

Pick up a thing, " [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

All life is an experiment.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.