Quotes About Curiosity

This wish to wander, to meet different kinds of people, is there something arrogant about it, something a little frivolous and perverse? Where will she go to make a home for herself when every home seems too sunk in its roots, too predictable

wondered if the animal described as 'semper

revolving bookcase, next to the vase.

when I say that children should be taught to think I do not mean (like many moderns) that they should be taught to doubt; for the two processes are not only not the same, but are in many ways opposite. To doubt is only to destroy; to think is to create.

In an age of universal education, nobody knows where anything comes from. The

In order to know the truth it is necessary to desire the truth, especially the truth that you do not know.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

To be interesting, be interested.

I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.

What is of the utmost importance is exposing children to critical thinking as opposed to mindless indoctrination.

principles of freethought is that no question is unaskable.

The main goal of education should always be to learn how to learn, to become an independent thinker.

Since God has left the fingerprints of his wisdom everywhere, since there is no place where God does not furnish us with raw materials for godly thinking, Christians should be seized with a rambunctious curiosity to ponder his works, both the majestic and the mundane. The task of wisdom is joyfully to describe and investigate all God's works. We may not be Solomons in insight, but we can gratefully examine the same data.

Antes que comece a fazer perguntas e a abrir portas que ficariam melhor se permanecessem fechadas, talvez deva pensar que talvez não goste muito do que acabará descobrindo.

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.

A person who asks questions can get a reputation such as a person who wishes to find things out.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

The first time I saw Marcey Parker she was happily firing a submachine gun through a window.

To teach a student riddle a student with his own life To teach a student ask a student the question he asked you in words more learned than his words until he relents and he says a student There is no answer I don't know

But I do not believe that Scripture was meant to be used as a conversation stopper. God seems to invite our questions, our doubts, and our wonderings.

We are not so much who we are by what we know, but by what we wonder. So go and seek and you shall find. And once you find that, go and seek some more.