Quotes About Curiosity

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill.'" —Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Running down a dream... working on a mystery... going wherever it leads...

You will never be told when the next bit of education is coming or where it's coming from or who the teacher will be. That information will only reveal itself after the fact. All that you can do is leave a little room there for the next lesson to come through. Someone will be carrying it. You just leave the door open a crack.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

Children, in a very real sense, have beginners' minds, open to wider possibilities. They see the world with fresher eyes, are less burdened with preconception and past experience, and are less guided by what they know to be true. They are more likely to pick up details that adults might discard as irrelevant. Because they're less concerned with being wrong or looking foolish, children often ask questions that adults won't ask.

As you plunge into learning some art or skill, the world around you appears new and bursting with infinite horizons. Each day brims with new discoveries as you take your tentative first steps, slowly pushing the bounds of exploration. You make mistakes, but even these are empowering, because they are mistakes you have never made before.

cultivation, of that spirit of the novice: the naïve optimism, the hypervigilant alertness that comes with novelty and insecurity, the willingness to look foolish, and the permission to ask obvious questions—the unencumbered beginner's mind.

Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I'd just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Strangers have the best candy.

We only fear what we don't know, if we knew everything we would have no fear.

Reading is important because, if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

I set myself on fire, and the people come to see me burn.

You only fear what you don't know, if you knew everything you would have no fear.

Where, exactly, was this hell?

but maybe that was the thing about being a kid. Either you didn't know when things were just too dangerous, or you didn't know enough to let the danger stop you from doing them.

Según cómo se mire qué? —preguntó Jared. No estaba seguro de si aquella criatura le resultaba divertida o temible.

Vaya —exclamó—. ¿Dónde estamos? Una fuerte carcajada sonó por encima de sus cabezas. —Casi nunca llegan tan lejos..., o tan cerca, según cómo se mire —dijo una criatura encaramada en un árbol.

Para qué quieres eso? —preguntó Mallory mientras cruzaban la avenida Dulac siguiendo el mapa. —Para atrapar cosas —contestó Simon sin mirarla a los ojos. —¿Qué clase de cosas? ¿Es que no tienes ya suficientes animales?.

breathlessly, opening the door to his old bedroom. She