Quotes About Curiosity

This failure to ask reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history.

The octopuses seemed to be neither friends nor enemies, but in a state of complicated coexistence.

What if instead we said, "Look at how you …" That would simply turn children's attention to the process and away from fixed-theory explanations.12

Cheryl: When you don't understand what someone said, remember, it's your job to ask them to explain.

Third, by not judging it as good or otherwise, the teacher shows that judging is not what happens in this class. Instead, we think about how and why people do things.

Como si se tratara de un folleto turístico: un único objetivo se presenta como aventura. Para el folleto, la aventura será un fuego de campamento -para mí lo será el agua que corre al borde de la acera, la superficie suave y lisa de la crema de zapatos en una lata nueva, la cama recién cambiada, una persona anciana aún curiosa.

Solo sufre por lo que no sabe. Lo que sabe, le deja indiferente. Si sabe algo de algo, pero no puede llegar a saber qué es y cómo es, entonces eso le atrae y tiene ganas de saber más. Lo inalcanzable seduce.

Do you have places like this in your country? Wang Yumei asked. I tried to imagine having a reunion with my friends in America and picking up a random foreigner and spending the day with him, simply out of curiosity and kindness. No,...

Still, as much as I had experienced, there was more waiting to be found. I had started out with a feeling of burning dullness and desperation. Now I was filled with a thrill and expectation of new discovery.

Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?

Honestly, I think that girl reads minds as a hobby.

What is that instrument?" Aly asked the head guard. When he returned a blank stare, she pantomimed playing the instrument. "A zither?" "Santur," he said.

Who farted?" Dan asked. "It's our clothes," Amy said. "Our clothes farted?" Dan asked. "I don't know them, ladies and gentlemen," Nellie said under her breath, "never saw them in my life …

In other words, I continue to think like an amateur as frequently as possible. GOING IT ALONE

Advocacy without inquiry begets more advocacy.

Do we meet each person curious about the miracle of a human being that we are about to connect with? Or do we meet a poor person that we are about to help?

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that he might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

He was a real scientist, born curious, but I seen his crippled hand twitch while he spoke: this man would rob them graves himself, being some way starved by life, bone greedy.

Now there was silence. For hours on end the valley would be completely still and empty, and we became curious. What was everybody doing? Faustin, we knew, traveled around the neighboring farms as a visiting slaughterer, slitting the throats and breaking the necks of rabbits and ducks and pigs and geese so that they could be turned into terrines and hams and confits.

Exhibitions were experiments.

gong to stay at a friend's." "Who? A girlfriend?

he'd come up from Bradford to see the band. I didn't know him, but he was

Something piqued his curiosity and he wanted to know more. There was no order to it, neither in his mind nor in his filing system. He would plunge into a subject with cavalier disregard for its chronological development. And

If you look at four-year-olds, they are constantly asking questions and wondering how things work," Gregersen observed generally. "But by the time they are six and a half years old they stop asking questions because they quickly learn that teachers value the right answers more than provocative questions.