Quotes About Curiosity

Rather than jumping straight into the answers, let's try to start students off with the sort of questions that encourage them to do their own seeking.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

The 'Friday sessions' refer to something that you're not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird – even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries.

I really love being human. But some days I really wish I could be a fairy.

Mommy, do you know what the Italian Renaissance is? It's naked people.

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget."

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.

The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.

The ability to learn, the means of learning, the tools of learning, are abundant and infinite. It's the desire that's incredibly scarce.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

You never stop learning.

Learning something new is fun.

Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.

I'm not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

Do you want to feel young again? Learn something new. Being a student makes your mind fresh and curious like a little kid again.

No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.