Quotes About Curiosity

When nature awakens our wonder and curiosity, we become scholars. This is the beginning of education. Through our senses, nature impresses herself on our minds. Her splendors shine forth everywhere we turn—from the largest masses to the tiniest particles. Then our mind begins to classify all that we survey, turning nature into organized knowledge.

when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody;

The scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge

He had no idea what a Ram Dass was, but he was open to learning.

wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.

Learning requires curiosity, exploration, evaluation, and dialogue. To be granted the product of knowledge without this process would violate what it means to be a creature.

Boredom is the opposite of learning. When a game stops teaching us, we feel bored.

WONDER IS ONE OF THOSE "POSSESSIONS" THAT NEEDS DISCIPLINED GUARDING AND THOUGHTFUL GUIDING.

La fel cum bondarul zboar? deÈ™i nu are o form? aerodinamic?, tot aÈ™a un om care îÈ™i aminteÈ™te ce înseamn? s? fii copil È™tie s? acorde raÈ›iunii È™i emoÈ›iei locul cuvenit, p?strând în acelaÈ™i timp ochii deschiÈ™i în faÈ›a miracolului lumii. Amintirile È™i visurile în care întrez?rim o f?râm? de mirare ne îndeamn? s? c?ut?m mai departe.

For the first time, I felt my mind being stretched — and I loved it. I realized that thinking could be fun, and with that simple realization I was sent headlong into the lifelong discipline of reading. I

A defini mirarea pentru un adult înainte de a o vedea prin ochii unul copil înseamn? a rata farmecul copil?riei. Cred c? vom descoperi c? deÈ™i copil?ria nu este o soluÈ›ie, ea este cheia pentru ajungerea la destinaÈ›ie.

Who Made God? Copyright © 2003 by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler

Isn't it amazing that we can go through life holding passionately to our views, yet never pausing to ask ourselves why that view is inviolable?

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.

Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that . Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.

Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.

How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.