Quotes About Curiosity

Einstein leans over to Besso, who is also short, and says, I want to understand time because I want to get close to The Old One.

The brightest has a gathering of people stood about it. Trapped beneath their heels, stretched shadows shy back from the flames, yet do not jump or dance. What are they burning there, so still by night? My

It was to the small serious boy that he turned for his enjoyment. He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and with these the little one played endlessly and intently, with a purpose obscure to the adult mind, but completely absorbing.

What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?

Martin Flanery,

I too saw the wooden horse blocking the stars.

My normal, regrettable practice of minimal eye contact and uncharitable pigeonholing is suspended in favor of a real fascination with everything human.

If you concern yourself with telling or showing people how interesting you are, you will at best provoke a temporary response of polite interest until even that gives way to annoyance. If you let people find it out for themselves, you become a real source of fascination.

Ruhun Tutkunlar?

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive...

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Teachers can teach only when students want to learn. No one can help a student who does not want to learn just

Just sit in one place and pay attention to all that I throw light on. The more attention you pay, the more you will want to know.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life.

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives

I saw young Jazzy

I normally ignore the History Channel.

To our young selves, though, there is no difference between the small questions and the big ones. We follow our curiosity to the edge of our understanding and then ask whoever is around what lies beyond it. I have spent my adult life fighting to keep what I possessed as a child: the ability to see the biggest questions sitting inside the smallest ones and the willingness to try to answer them.

Where did you learn to kiss like that?" I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again. "I said I was a virgin, not a monk," he said, kissing me again. "If I find I need guidance, I'll ask.

We deal right now in the educational landscape with an infatuation with the culture of one right answer that can be properly bubbled on the average multiple choice test. I am here to share with you, it is not learning.

Incluso en mi niñez lo tuve prohibido, y aunque a veces subía por los tejados y miraba a través de la ventana lo que mis antepasados habían guardado en esa oscura habitación nunca supe lo que se ocultaba. Ahora estoy allí, y nadie me ha detenido.

Across the sea and up the stair The Wild Poppy's everywhere. Though southmen search until they're blind They know not what they seek to find.