Quotes About Curiosity

He was a squirrel. Could he be a superhero, too?

The most profound and difficult questions that could possibly be posed by the human mind or heart will be answered within for the price of one florit.

What you giving me them shifty-eyed looks for?

Proceed cautiously with people who can no longer be bowled over by wonder.

In some ways, mystery could make a person attractive.

He laughed. "But I love to ride, just as—as fire loves to burn. I love to see the mountains in the winter, the sea and the northern hills in the summer. Would you live forever in one place, never seeing another?

She's read many books.

I want to stay here and think about the secret door.' 'You can think about it on the way. That's the beautiful thing about the secret door. You can open it anywhere, any time.' In later years, the court ladies often laughed behind their fans at the Dauphin, saying cruelly that he could spend a whole day tapping his cane against his foot and staring into space. I knew, though, that he was building castles in the air.

What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom.

Jesse and Daisy were just entering the Deep Woods when Jesse noticed a stirring in the ferns growing near the base of the Douglas fir.

Too many students, both graduate and undergraduate, think that the aim of education is to memorize settled answers to someone else's questions. It is not. It is to learn to find your own answers to your own questions. To do that, you must learn to wonder about things, to let them puzzle you--particularly things that seem most commonplace.

If you haven't found your calling yet, the best thing to do is get your butt off your chair, fill your life with a wide array of unusual experiences, and allow yourself to bump into what will exhilarate you.

I believe...that education is not only the most important societal problem but the most interesting.

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

Jess followed, still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. They watched the bus roar off.

The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.

Well, I've never been to a church before. It would be a new experience for me." He went back to work. "You'd hate it." "Why?" "It's boring.

She wasn't scared of going deep, deep down in a world of no air and little light

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

The point of living in the world is just to stay interested

Nostalgia for what's new: The French probably have a word for that.

only way to stimulate the spirit of inquiry is, first to make the person realize that he does not know, and, second, that it is truly possible to know.

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I have about a hundred cats living in me and all of them are curious