Quotes About Curiosity

I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

People are adamant learning is not just looking at a Google page. But it is. Learning is looking at Google pages. What is wrong with that?

Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Without questions, there is no learning.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.