Quotes About Curiosity

W]ithout travelling one remains a poor creature; that goes especially for people in the arts and sciences! [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

Las mujeres sienten curiosidad sin mezcla, su mente es indagatoria y chismosa (...) no saben que los actos se cometen solos o que los pone en marcha una sola palabra, necesitan probar, no prevén, quizá ellas sí están dispuestas a saber casi siempre, no se acuerdan que después de saber todo cambia a veces

Elég az, ha nem akarják, hogy halljunk valamit, és mi mindent elkövetünk, hogy megtudjunk valamit, az meg sem fordul a fejünkben, hogy olykor a mi érdekünkben nem avatnak be, nehogy csalódjunk, vagy belekeveredjünk valamibe, hogy ne lássuk olyan sötétnek a világot, mint amilyen.

poco es lo que se hace público, poco lo que interesa, poco lo que quiere conocer la gente, que está fijada en lo suyo, cada uno en lo propio y lo de los demás qué importa.

nadie renuncia a la posibilidad de contar algo anómalo.

Luisa couldn't understand why I hadn't wanted to ask more questions, women feel an unalloyed curiosity about things, their minds are investigative, gossipy and fickle, they never imagine or anticipate the nature of the thing about which they know nothing

las personas desdichadas se empeñan en averiguar muchas veces la magnitud de su desdicha, o en indagar vidas ajenas para abstraerse de las suyas.

É curioso como o pensamento mergulha no inverosímil, como se permite fazê-lo momentaneamente, como imagina ou se torna supersticioso para descansar um pouco ou encontrar alívio, como é capaz de negar os factos e fazer o tempo retroceder, nem que seja um instante. Como se parece com o sonho.

No one can experience everything first hand; in fact, no one can experience more than a few dozen things even through books and courses and other first-hand descriptions. We have to rely on other people's experiences in order to continue broadening our world - even if, once we have heard those other experiences, we want to go out and have our own, to test their descriptions in practice.

Listening is only powerful and effective if it is authentic. Authenticity means that you are listening because you are curious and because you care, not just because you are supposed to. The issue, then, is this: Are you curious? Do you care?

In addition to the stance of curiosity, there are three primary skills that good listeners employ: inquiry, paraphrasing, and acknowledgment.

The heading says it all: inquire to learn. And only to learn. You can tell whether a question will help the conversation or hurt it by thinking about why you asked it. The only good answer is "To learn.

we don't know what we don't know.

Creating pull is about mastering the skills required to drive our own learning; it's about how to recognize and manage our resistance, how to engage in feedback conversations with confidence and curiosity, and even when the feedback seems wrong, how to find insight that might help us grow.

These are the purposes that emerge from a learning stance, from working through the Three Conversations and shifting your internal orientation from certainty to curiosity, from debate to exploration, from simplicity to complexity, from "either/or" to "and.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Be awesome! Be a book nut!