Quotes About Curiosity

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower. We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant—it's the desire to learn that's scarce.

It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as the novelist who is over certain of his plot." –Paul Theroux

Losing makes you think in ways victories can't. You begin asking questions instead of feeling like you have the answers. Questions open up the doors to so many possibilities.

Follow your intellectual curiosity over whatever is "hot" right now. If your curiosity ever leads you to a place where society eventually wants to go, you'll get paid extremely well.

One of the world's great investors once said to me, "Tom, what do you consider the number-one failing of CEOs?" After I hemmed and hawed, he said, "They don't read enough.

love, be loved, and never stop learning—

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

Students should go to college with an open mind. I advise them to ignore all the absolutism around them, both in terms of ideas and people. When they're told that some people or ideas are wrong, hateful, or offensive, a light bulb should go off in their heads. That is the moment their curiosity should be piqued to find out for themselves whether it is indeed a "bad" thing. Adopting an attitude of critical thinking is most crucial in learning anything.

Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't

When they're told that some people or ideas are wrong, hateful, or offensive, a light bulb should go off in their heads. That is the moment their curiosity should be piqued to find out for themselves whether it is indeed a "bad" thing.

Follow your curiosity, wherever you can find

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert (3) Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (3) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman (3) The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss (3) The Bible (3) The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz (3) The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (3) Watchmen by Alan Moore (3) Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters (3)

la clave en la vida es, por un lado, tener el valor de adentrarse en lo desconocido,

I don't care why people pick up cookbooks. I'm much more interested in why they put them down.

Learn more, know less.

the opposite of happiness is—here's the clincher—boredom.

Celebrate the childlike mind." Steve Jurvetson

The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo. Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

WHAT INTERESTING THING ARE YOU WORKING ON? WHY IS THAT INTERESTING TO YOU? WHAT'S SURPRISING ABOUT THAT? IS ANYBODY ELSE THINKING ABOUT THIS?" These are common questions

Live the questions so that, one day, you will live yourself into the answers.

Sé cuánto os repatea ver cómo me lo paso, pero ¿a que no adivináis dónde estoy?».

Everyone is interesting. If you're ever bored in a conversation, the problem's with you, not the other person.