Quotes About Curiosity

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

How can you eat anything with eyes?

learning a passion to learn is more important for your practical success than learning any particular facts or skills.

The adults in the room have to be skilled and literate by those 21st-century standards the NCTE is touting. And they have to exhibit the dispositions that will sustain their learning: persistence, empathy, passion, sharing, collaboration, creativity, and curiosity.

We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them." I

Don't teach my child science; instead, teach my child how to learn science — or history or math or music.

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin'. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?

When you're through learning, you're through.

You would be surprised what there is to see in this great country within 200 miles of where any of us live. I don't care what State or what town.

What are you reading? isn't a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it's really a way of asking, Who are you now and who are you becoming?

He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity about other people that he had the ability to make everyone around him feel smart and well-read.

Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I think we should ask one another a lot more often, and that's "what are you reading?

Well, what were your favorite books?" "When?" "As a young girl." "Nancy Drew. I read dozens of them. I loved the idea of a girl detective.

She always read the end of a book first because she couldn't wait to find out how things would turn out.

When we ask one another "What are you reading?" sometimes we discover the ways that we are similar; sometimes the ways that we are different. Sometimes we discover things we never knew we shared; other times we open ourselves up to exploring new worlds and ideas. "What are you reading?" isn't a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it's really a way of asking, "Who are you now and who are you becoming?

The Uncommon Reader,

It is my habit to buy cheap editions of old, obscure books and see what I can discover there. If the professors of literature knew the sources of my ideas, they would be astounded at the Philistine. But there is a greater pleasure in picking up a small pearl in an ash-can than in looking at a large one in a jeweler's window.