Quotes About Curiosity

Rather, it's the ongoing practice of looking and learning, of facing fears and altering habits, of cultivating a new fascination in people and places.

On the Advantage of Cultivating Beginner's Mind "Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working.

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "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.

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.

I made it worse. I lay there for months and months, obsessing over all the places I'd never go, and I gradually realized that many of the ones I most wanted to see were places I'd never heard of. That was when I began seeing my countries." "How

Why not? Yeah

Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served.

It is never wrong to be curious. But it can sometimes be dangerous.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

People never cease to amaze me.

Avanzar, buscar, buscar lo otro. Ocuparse de todo lo que es distinto. Salir de los caminos trazados. Viajar ha sido importantísimo para mí. Esa sensación de descubrimiento ha sido importantísima. Ésa era mi vida, no me detenía nada.

Aber mehr denn je bin ich überzeugt, dass nichts von vornherein auszuschliessen ist; dass sich immer Wertvolles - Menschen der Dinge - gerade an den unerwartetsten Orten und in den unvorhergesehensten Situationen finden lässt.

Where then did I get my longing to see the world, my fetish for printed paper, my love of books, and above all that burning desire to leave Florence, to travel, to go to the ends of earth? Where did I get this yearning for always being somewhere else? Certainly not from my parents, with their deep roots in the city where they were born and grew up, which they had left only once, for their honeymoon in Prato -- ten miles away.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue

The theory is simple. Every boy, every man, is really a bit of a golden retriever or a big chocolate Lab. Watch any man's eyes at the bounce of a ball. His head tilts slightly sideways, just a hair, as a primitive focus comes to life.

He realized how little he knew, how unimaginably vast the universe was, and how its emptiness was only another word for mystery.

Once you have discovered the physical facts of a situation, all that remains - no matter how improbable - is more interesting.

There was a time when our minds were always on a roll. We used boxes and sticks to become astronauts and artists. We created fantasy characters and outrageous worlds. We drew whimsical pictures and cooked up wild ideas. We were complete originals.

ignore all of that doubt-inducing information and be driven by curiosity and passion.

Education is not a destination, but a journey that requires an open mind, a curious spirit, and a willingness to explore new ideas and perspectives.

The true purpose of education is not to fill a container, but to light a fire that inspires a lifelong passion for learning and personal growth.

Even after I lost my religious faith, Christianity remained to me deeply and resonantly interesting, and I have long believed that anyone who does not find Christianity interesting has only his or her unfamiliarity with the topic to blame.

The most memorable interviews for me are always the ones where I feel like I'm learning something new.