Quotes About Curiosity

The grand design of education is to excite, rather than pretend to satisfy, an ardent thirst for information; and to enlarge the capacity of the mind, rather than to store it with knowledge, however useful.

A poem is an empty house. [Stranger, you must enter, then knock.]

Heavy-Egg enjoyed work, and often wondered what it would feel like to be a human and have to spend a third of your life unconscious. He had heard that humans would fall asleep even when their lives were in danger.

That's the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.

When Albert Einstein was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, an eager young newspaper reporter approached him one day, notebook in hand. "Well, Professor Einstein," he asked, "what's new in science?" Einstein looked at him with his deep, soft eyes and replied, "Oh? Have you already written about all the old science?

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right?" His father laughed but didn't answer.

The old man said, " The house is talking to us." "What's it saying?" David said. Jesse said, "It's hungry.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

Everything, as Mr. Yul Brynner used to tell us six nights a week and Saturday matinees, is a puzzlement.

Youth is wholly experimental.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The strangest things are there for me,Both things to eat and things to see,And many frightening sights abroadTill morning in the land of Nod.

There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

fellows are just naturally interested in a good piece of work and have no unnatural restrictions in looking it over. Perhaps, and may the sahibs of the Fogg forgive me for thinking it, this simple, curious outlook of healthy men is more important than some of the monuments themselves.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.

Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedius, but not if you brought a book.

Only boring people get bored. Life may be tedious, but not if you brought a book.

The closer she looked at those windows, the lovelier and more irresistible the house became.