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Quotes About Curiosity

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
~ Anthony J. D'Angelo
Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.
~ Anonymous
She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons
~ Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
I inherited curiosity from my Dad.
~ Unknown
The enemy of learning is knowing.
~ Unknown
The more you know the more you need to learn.
~ Unknown
Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
~ David Brooks
Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.
~ Unknown
Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
~ Clarence Day
A good education should leave much to be desired.
~ Alan Gregg
'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.
~ George Ade
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
~ Edmund Burke
Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.
~ Jay Maisel
Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.
~ Carl Sagan
I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.
~ Ralph Keyes
I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
~ Socrates
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~ Albert Einstein
There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.
~ Rubem Alves
I did not think; I experimented.
~ Unknown
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
~ e. e. cummings
You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
~ John Taylor Gatto
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
~ Rose Tremain
Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.
~ Hideo Kojima
Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.
~ Constance Zimmer