Quotes About Curiosity

Pandora, possessed by the unleashed contents of her box.

It was on the Wednesday after the great storm that Mr. Geronimo first noticed that his feet no longer touched the ground.

in the exotic simplicities of travel I was able to find a modicum of peace. But, in the end, tourism ceased to satisfy; curiosity began to niggle; Let's find out, I told myself, what really goes on around here.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

But what, after all, can a baby do except swallow all of it and hope to make sense of it later?

You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know.

It is therefore in the very nature of faith to serve as an impediment to further inquiry.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.

Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.