Quotes About Curiosity

Perché sono venuto qui? Me lo chiedo a ogni partenza, come se fosse stato l'ordine supremo di uno zar, e non la mia personale volontà, a spingermi lontano.

In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colors of a rainbow.

What's Wal*Mart? Is that were they sell wall stuff?

Does Wall-Mart sell wall stuff?

Wal-Mart, do they like, sell walls there?

I spent the rest of the night researching this guy.

Each time I walk into a classroom, I can choose the place within myself from which my teaching will come, just as I can choose the place within my students toward which my teaching will be aimed. I need not teach from a fearful place: I can teach from my curiosity or hope or empathy or honesty, places that are as real within me as are my fears. I can have fear, but I need not be fear - if I am willing to stand somewhere else in my inner landscape.

They should be encouraged to bring all of who they are and what they know into each class. By welcoming the whole student into our classes, unfamiliar aspects of who they are and what they care about suddenly come into view. What are the heartfelt questions they struggle with? Are they too scared to acknowledge the hopes and aspirations they harbor for their lives and for this world?

Le pire, c'est de rater la merveille par peur ou paresse et de rester claquemuré en soi, dans le provincialisme de son identité.

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

There is nothing in the world as enticing as a wood of any kind, because of its mysteries.

I took biology two years in a row just to eat the specimens.

I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun's slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved."5

She begins, "What is the question we spend our entire lives asking?" and answers, "Our question is this: Are we loved? I don't mean by one another." She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: "I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun's slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.

All you have to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you will find people who are eager to fill your head with information." WALT DISNEY

To me, the smarter you are, the more you want to learn - Ernie Accorsi

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we are curious—and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." WALT DISNEY

If you only read what you agree with, you'll never learn anything. - James D. Hodgson

Art is a means to enter, to play with, to dance with, to wrestle with anything that intrigues, delights, disturbs, or terrifies us.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.