Quotes About Curiosity

Einstein: His Life and Universe,

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

Where are you from, Mr. Pendergast? Can't quite place the accent." "New Orleans." "What a coincidence! I went there for Mardi Gras once." "How nice for you. I myself have never attended." Ludwig paused, the smile frozen on his face, wondering how to steer the conversation onto a more pertinent topic.

I went to outer space," I said, "But I didn't like it.

Imagine that while scuba diving, you suddenly see a shark glide into view. Your heart starts to pound and your anxiety skyrockets. You're terrified, which is a perfectly rational and understandable feeling. Now imagine that your marine biology training enables you to identify it as a Reef Shark, which you know doesn't prey on anything as large as you. Your anxiety disappears. Instead you feel excited and curious to observe the shark's behavior.

get curious about what you don't know about yourself.

Because good listening requires an open and honest curiosity about the other person, and a willingness and ability to keep the spotlight on them. Buried emotions draw the spotlight back to us. Instead of wondering, "How does what they are saying make sense?

If you know almost nothing, almost anything will tell you something.

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

Collections do not leave the collector unaffected. The art of collecting results in a certain turn of mind.

Read because you want to, not because you need to. Actually, you need to as well, but you need to want to. You also need to want to need to, but I am rapidly getting out of my depth.

The more you read, the more you know, the more you know, the more places you will go.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

Within the heart of every boy is an adventurer.

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

When a child's mind begins to wander because of something you (the teacher) have said, wander with it. When it begins to wander because of nothing you said, kick yourself in the posterior and say something worth wandering about!

You gotta open the kid before you open the book.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.