Quotes About Curiosity

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors.

The first step of wisdom is to question everything.

the desire and hunger for education is the key to real learning.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four — of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to.

Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.

The last thing you want first-graders thinking is that what they're reading in first grade is as good as books are going to get!

Background knowledge is one reason children who read the most bring the largest amount of information to the learning table and thus understand more of what the teacher or the textbook is teaching. Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying.

Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Miz Hetta? Inquiring minds wanna know." "You really want

But then, as she looks at their unsuspecting, uninterested faces, she will start to think about what that really means. That just like there is more to her than what they see, there is more inside each one of them. What's your story? she will wonder as she scans the room from face to face. And this time, when she pleads with them to read between the lines, she will try to do the same.

I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

I read in hopes of little sparkling moments that are going to turn my head inside out.

Robert Heinlein says in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel that the only things worth studying are history, languages, and science. Actually, he adds maths, but honestly they left out the mathematical part of my brain.

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

I was inclined to drift away from the sum to wonder why people would care what time two trains passed each other (spies), be so picky about seating arrangements (recently divorced people), or—which to this day remains incomprehensible—run the bath with no plug in.

Give me the good for which I do not know to ask,

Montagne che uno va salendo, per scoprire altre montagne. Ci sono cose di tutti i generi. Vivendo, s'impara; ma quel che s'impara, di più, è solo a fare altre e maggiori domande.

Então eu acho que se deve experimentar, é uma burrice não experimentar. Quem não usa nada, nem secretamente, é um perigoso louco que possivelmente mataria alguém.

Henry James escreveu não sei onde que ler um romance é olhar pelo buraco da fechadura.

Ãœberall ist Wunderland, Ãœberall ist Leben