Quotes About Curiosity

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before.

Your life is an opportunity to question, discover, and explore.

The smile on his face said, pure and simple, those honey cakes came with a price. And his price was answers.

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

Smile at your critics for they have yet to see the universe that exists outside the box

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

How can you eat anything with eyes?

I explored because I was feeling really crappy, and I wanted to know why

Regardless of how far we have come, we are still looking for answers.

I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.