Quotes About Curiosity

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.

The idea of being pleasured by a female lover intrigues you but I am not sure that you like such company otherwise. You are very much a man's woman.

I'll have what she's having.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me." Lady Alice Rowhedge

Only people of low birth pressed questions likely to embarrass.

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

We all love to discover for ourselves the causes of problems.  When we do discover for ourselves our energy really moves inside us.  When we are told the answers we might learn a little, but it is nothing like the magic of discovering things through our own questions.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

9. Random movements provide variation that leads to developmental breakthroughs. Monumental gains, Feldenkrais discovered, are made not by mechanical movement but by the opposite—random movements. Children learn to roll over, crawl, sit, and walk through experimentation. Most babies learn to roll over, for instance, when they follow something with their eyes that interests them, then follow it so far that, to their surprise, they roll over.

We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless-a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.

It makes good biological sense for this "machinery" always to be on because babies can't possibly know what will be important in life, so they pay attention to everything.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don't.

When it comes to the ever-elusive goal of achieving what is usually called "scientific literacy" for the general population, it is hard not to conclude that the task is hopeless.7b

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one's passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint.

One attractive thing about me is that I'm never bored, because during any caesura my personal automatic pastime of questioning my own motives is there for me.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.