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Quotes About Curiosity

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
~ Horace Mann
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
~ Thomas Aquinas
If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.
~ Ettore Sottsass
Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.
~ George Will
There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.
~ Janet Morris
John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?
~ CM Punk
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
~ Werner Herzog
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
~ Diogenes Laertius
If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.
~ Brian Selznick
By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream
~ Gustave Flaubert
I have just created something totally illogical.
~ Ray Kinsella
Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don't ask a question before you Google it. You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.
~ Austin Kleon
Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Being passionately curious about things give us the desire to want to learn, to explore and to seek opportunities to set goals and accomplish great things. It allows us to dream.
~ Ellen J. Barrier
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
~ Abigail Adams
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
~ Margaret Mead
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
~ Samuel Johnson
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.
~ Mark Twain
No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.
~ Robert M. Hensel
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
~ Eric Hoffer
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
~ Neil Postman