Quotes About Curiosity

de curiosos están los camposantos llenos

I understood and agreed that from a feminist perspective working in a strip club was extremely problematic, but I was saving money to travel and making more in one night than most of my friends made in a week. Plus, it was interesting.

Start a conversation with someone with whom you have "nothing in common" and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. In other words, a conversation just for the civilized hell of it.

You want to know what OASIS is? You want to know the TRUTH? It's just on the other side of this door. That I am really hoping is unlocked.

Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.

You see this circle? The size of this circle represents everything that I know about basketball. But the size of this ball represents everything about the game that has never been discovered.

I will go outside, wander about aimlessly, and see what happens.

There's a man at the gate, watching me. 'Have ya fallen and hurt yourself, or are ye just afraid of the cow?

Mindfulness is a perspective of benign curiosity about all of your inner experience. Recovery is enhanced immeasurably by developing this helpful process of introspection. As it becomes more developed, mindfulness can be used to recognize and dis-identify from beliefs and viewpoints that you acquired from your traumatizing family.

Mindfulness is a perspective of benign curiosity about all of your inner experience.

Functional parents liberally and patiently greet their children's eagerness to participate and help regardless of the fact that this usually makes tasks take longer. Functional parents also "child-proof" their homes during the toddler stage (by moving all dangerous and breakable items out of reach) instead of systematically punishing and extinguishing their children's healthy curiosity and adventurousness.

An open-ended question invites curiosity.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

If people would make an effort to learn about the wonders that did exist, he thought, their appetite for dragons would be well satisfied.

You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of new things to know.

To fantasies', he said. 'Tell me about yours.' His eyes were a bright, liquid blue, and his lips were parted in a half smile.

A dropped cat always lands on its feet. Buttered toast always lands buttered side down. Strap buttered toast to back of cat , & drop. The two will hover, spinning inches above the ground ...

Understand that the task is to shift the demand for the right answer to the search for the right question.

Pitting the learning of basic knowledge against creative thinking is a false choice

Evincing the infinite— the size of your palm— what it holds is beyond you, curious, at hand.

Ignorance is the enemy, curiosity the weapon of choice

Man is inconsolable, thanks to that eternal "Why?" when there is no Why, that question mark twisted like a fishhook in the human heart. "Let there be light," we cry, and only the dawn breaks.

If we want our species to survive in the long term, human beings cannot afford to stop reaching for the stars.