Quotes About Curiosity

This polymath thinker is what IDEO's Tim Brown has called a "T-Shaped Person." T-shaped people have innate technical skills, along with empathy, curiosity, and great observational skills. "They have a principle skill that describes the vertical leg of the 'T'—they're mechanical engineers or industrial designers. But they are so empathetic that they can branch out into other skills, such as anthropology, and do them as well.

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend "a course of reading." Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for books read all of them. There is no other course.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.

Andrew Mayne

if there were no stupidity in the world, we'd all be riding around in flying cars and colonizing Proxima Centauri

you want to get as close to the data as you can get, because it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

You could probably tell more from her discarded dental floss. At least I would know what she had for dinner, her dental health, and possibly the DNA of the last person she kissed.

My curiosity was more powerful than my fear.

There's an intelligence there, a raging fire of curiosity.

because it's the questions you don't know to ask

it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

Maybe he is interested in some subject, but it isn't a subject we teach here

Book shelves were on the right-hand wall and a framed print of Christina's World on the left. 'Mr Saunders found that picture in a closet and thought it might be something you'd like.' 'It was always in here,' I said, looking at it. I had often stared at it and wondered about the woman in the picture and how much like her I often felt. 'I do like it. I like it very much.

Things that go bump in the brain.

They're coming ! All of us waiting for the little green men to probe us or decimate us or turn us into shrubbery.

And so, with all the athleticism of a student who spends most of his time reading and enchanting, I tried to jump

Mages, unsurprisingly, loved researching new and exciting ways to explode things just as much as anyone else. I

You are not supposed to be here." Mizuchi turned her head from side to side, searching.

How is this done? By applying Grove's Principle of Didactic Management, "Ask one more question!" When the supervisor thinks the subordinate has said all he wants to about a subject, he should ask another question.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex.

many experiments which intrigued him. He was particularly interested in the properties of light. By using a spinning colour

I wanted to ask her what the fuck was wrong but I had a date with a pack of skittish whores.