Quotes About Curiosity

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

It sounds crazy, but I'm not even scared when I decide to go for it. Frankly, it's the only logical course of action. If you have the chance to uncover a secret and you walk away without looking, there's something wrong with you.

success for adult learners boils down to just one key factor: adventurousness.

No subsection of a piece is too humble to merit our curiosity and serious attention. It may be literally one note (Did I feel relaxed and confident landing on it?) or two notes (Have I truly experienced the space between them%). We build mastery by integrating all these small units.

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.

The road to medical knowledge is through the pathological museum and not through an apothecary's shop.

Where the statue stoodOf Newton with his prism and silent face,The marble index of a mind foreverVoyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

Cheap matter offered they to boyish wit

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.

It's what we do Rita; we pluck birds from the sky and nail them down to learn how they fly.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

a flagstone path curved into the darkness of space toward… who knows where? I knew—that's knew—I had to follow that path.

Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: "The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

Nemo suggested that it might be some monster giant but his papa called him a "rattlebrain" and ordered him to pacify his mama who was making elaborate plans to faint.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Tennessee to places like Corinth, Nashville, and even Shiloh, which at that point he'd never heard of.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.