Quotes About Curiosity

Don't think outside the box. Go box shopping. Keep trying on one after another until you find the one that catalyzes your thinking. A good box is like a lane marker on the highway. It's a constraint that liberates.

Unlike people from any other time in history, we know what we are looking at when we look up upon the night sky.

For many thousands of years, human beings have wondered and asked questions about the distant past and the remote future of our world. The fact that we continue to ask such questions does not distinguish us from our ancient ancestors. What does make us different is that for the first time in history we, as a species, are capable of producing real and credible answers to these questions. We are among the first to be witness of the Big Bang.

Oh no! Sally was on the floor; the chair had toppled over, and Milkshake was nearby. Sally picked up the book and looked at it. She noticed it was a special book. Its color was red, bright red like a fresh apple. The title of the book was also unique, "The Magical Zoo." Sally read the title to Milkshake, and her pet was also interested.

I wish I were a shark so humans would play with me with strange toys.

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' — such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.

We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. . . . Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves."7

If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." —Henry Ford5

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

Say, what's the question mark for? Sexual identity?

It's like whenever a friend wants to show me their favorite movie... ... and it's great and all, but... ... I'd rather see something that they hadn't seen before. So we could watch it for the first time together.

I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

The close relationship between the patron and the painting might lead us to question what this image was for.

I was now planning on replacing "bull in a china shop" with "dragon sees a new hoard.

He wondered how a dog no bigger than a loaf of bread had accomplished so much damage in a matter of moments.

Incidentally, if you have never stalked someone close to you, I highly recommend it. Check out how it tranforms them. How other they become, and how infinitely necessary and justified the stalking becomes when you realize how little you know about them, how mysterious every aspect of them seems with an at a distance but close examiniation.

ability to answer their own questions… Gradually, they acquire a skill shared by the greatest scholars in the world: the ability to educate themselves…

sartorial splendor with a long, speculative survey

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

I'm still unsure as to what draws people together, that is, beyond the really ugly things: money, beauty, family, desperation. But I suppose that if someone can make you feel like you are seeing a new world, or just an old one of the first time, you might decide that you love to be around them.

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the desire to explore the unfamiliar. They are drawn toward what they don't understand.

A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.