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Quotes About Curiosity

I can answer the question, but am I bright enough to ask it?")
~ John Brockman
I always wondered what democracy might smell like.
~ John Brunner
The Unknown, happily, will be always with us, for there are infinite secrets in a blade of grass, and an eddy of wind, and a grain of dust , and human knowledge will never attain that finality when the sense of wonder shall cease.
~ John Buchan
Obstinate was curious and asked, "What are the things you are searching for that can't be found in this world?" "I'm searching for a joy that does not fade," replied Christian, "a secure inheritance in Heaven that cannot be corrupted and will be given at the appointed time to those who earnestly search for it." He held out the book in his hand. "Don't take my word for it. Read it in my book."11
~ John Bunyan
When was the last time you did something for the first time?
~ John C. Maxwell
The greatest enemy of learning is knowing
~ John C. Maxwell
Learning to pause and ask questions turns experience into insight.
~ John C. Maxwell
The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it, and turn it inside out.
~ John C. Maxwell
When you meet someone new, after the introductions and initial pleasantries, don't hesitate. Dive in and ask to hear the person's story. You can do it any number of ways: you can flat-out ask, "What's your story?" You can request that he tell you about himself. You can ask where he is from or how he got into the field he's in. Use your own style.
~ John C. Maxwell
La habilidad de hacer la pregunta correcta le da la mitad de la victoria en la batalla por encontrar la respuesta".
~ John C. Maxwell
Peter Drucker, dijo: "Mi mayor fortaleza como consultor es ser ignorante y hacer unas cuantas preguntas".
~ John C. Maxwell
Every day I read, write, think, ask questions, and file what I learn. These are the five disciplines I practice to keep improving.
~ John C. Maxwell
An open mind is the beginning of self-discovery and growth. We can't learn anything new until we can admit that we don't already know everything." —Erwin G. Hall
~ John C. Maxwell
The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
~ John C. Maxwell
Sir Antony Jay said, The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions. Wrong questions shut down the process of creative thinking. They direct thinkers down the same old path, or they chide them into believing that thinking isn't necessary at all.
~ John C. Maxwell
If you are your only source of information and ideas, you're in trouble.
~ John C. Maxwell
Teachability is an attitude of wanting to learn from every experience and every person.
~ John C. Maxwell
Will the reader turn the page?
~ John C. Maxwell
If you want to break out of your own box, get into somebody's else's. Read broadly.
~ John C. Maxwell
What will motivate them to turn the page?
~ John C. Maxwell
The future belongs to the curious.
~ John C. Maxwell
His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape.
~ John Cheever
The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.
~ John Cheever
And he recognized that he was separated only by a pane of glass from a life that was as strange to him as life on the moon.
~ John Cheever