Quotes About Curiosity

Een wilde kat gleed zachtvoetig door de bosjes, een vreemd uitziende kat met een korte krulstaart. Hij bleef staan en staarde naar het meisje, met intense gele ogen, en glipte toen weer door het struikgewas weg. Het meisje kwam overeind en ging staan, haar gezicht straalde bovenaardse verrukking uit.

Het wordt steeds curieuzer! Nou, mijn lieve Alice, wat fijn dat ik je nu eindelijk eens kan ontmoeten. - Al

Trotseer ze, Bloem-Alice-Claire. Bied weerstand aan hun overheersing. Daar ben je sterk genoeg voor. Je bent altijd een rebel geweest, altijd op zoek naar verklaringen waar anderen de dingen klakkeloos accepteerden... Je hebt nooit toegegeven, liefje, je bent nooit met de kudde meegehobbeld. - Al

There is no shame in not knowing something," he said gently. "The shame is in not being willing to learn.

No es ninguna vergüenza no saber nada. La vergüenza es no tener ansias de aprender.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is not being willing to learn.

stubbornly unsolved, and of the laborious and ongoing task of decipherment and translation. For the curious amateur

There is no shame in not knowing something," he said gently. "The shame is in not being willing to learn

I don't know everything. No one does, and only the foolish seek to.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

if I didn't ask questions, the truth would still be the truth.

Don't ask any questions and you won't hear any lies.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

It's not that children are little scientists — it's that scientists are big children. Scientists actually are the few people who as adults get to have this protected time when they can just explore, play, figure out what the world is like.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

It's not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.

I'll show that babies, like scientists, use statistics and experiments to learn about the world.

We decided to become developmental psychologists and study children because there aren't any Martians. These brilliant beings with the little bodies and big heads are the closest we can get to a truly alien intelligence (even if we may occasionally suspect that they are bent on making us their slaves.)

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

But there's more to this world than meets the eye, isn't there?

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

The intolerance of ignorance, not wanting to know – that is the last real frontier on earth.

If one day I should hear the hacker's slow, booted step on the stair, perhaps I'll suggest a cup of tea and try to get the story of his life.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?