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Quotes About Curiosity

there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.
~ Will Schwalbe
questing is more important than finding, and a journey is more important than the mere arrival at a destination
~ Will Schwalbe
Good books often answer question you did not even know you wanted to ask
~ Will Schwalbe
And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.
~ Will Schwalbe
The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity.
~ Will Self
As the psychologist Professor Brian Little writes, 'All individuals are essentially scientists erecting and testing their hypotheses about the world and revising them in the light of their experience.
~ Will Storr
It is the great glory of the quest for human knowledge that, while making some small contribution to that quest, we can also continue to learn and to take pleasure in learning.
~ William Alfred Fowler
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
~ William Allen White
Up the airy mountain,Down the rushy glen,We daren't go a-huntingFor fear of little men.
~ William Allingham
and find apartment 627. I swallow hard and knock. The
~ William Andrews
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
~ William Arthur Ward
One reason children are capable of joy is because they take almost nothing for granted.
~ William B. Irvine
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?
~ William Blake
True learning only occurs when you love the subject you are studying and then the acquiring of knowledge is effortless because it is also a pleasure.
~ William Boyd
There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.
~ William Boyd
body bowed forward as though she were
~ William Browning Spencer
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. Albert
~ William Buhlman
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
~ William Butler Yeats
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
~ William Butler Yeats
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
~ William Butler Yeats
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
~ William Cobbett
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
~ William Cowper
Young children are developing more of an artistic orientation, and the orientation they develop is so naturally graceful and lively that many great artists have said that they constantly try to recapture it.
~ William Crain
Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.
~ William Cullen Bryant