Quotes About Curiosity

How do we teach a child--our own, or those in a classroom--to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have--or need--answers.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.

We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.

When I think of the children's books I love best, I realize that they're written on a great many different levels. Now the first level is story. A good children's book must hold the reader's interest. It must be first and foremost a good story that will make the reader keep wanting to go on turning the pages. But underneath that good story is buried treasure. No one person will find all of the treasure, but each will discover special joys.

Mrs Whatsit shook her beautiful head.

Oh, girl, not woman, more than child, Which of us two is the more wild? So

just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Why does anybody do anything? Mimi asked impatiently. Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

She told them to read a poem every day and think about it, and whenever they went to a new place, to find out about its history and what had made it the place it had become.

home early, Liam?

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

I read obituaries first thing in the morning. With a cup of coffee. This is NOT MORBID. Just epic. Maybe it's a way of trying to figure out, before the day begins, what is important. And I am curious about all the little things that make up life. Little?

Don't look at the stranger and jump to conclusions. Look at the stranger's world.

We need to accept our ignorance and say 'I don't know' more often.

Why are man hole covers around? If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

Why is a two-year-old so terrible? Because she is systematically testing the fascinating and, to her, utterly novel notion that something that gives her pleasure might not actually give someone else pleasure—and the truth is that as adults we never lose that fascination.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story to tell. I say trick but what I really mean is challenge, because it's a very hard thing to do.

Sometimes the best conversations between strangers allow the stranger to remain a stranger.

In Steiger's case, of course, his high connectedness is a function of his versatility as an actor and, in all likelihood, some degree of good luck. But in the case of Connectors, their ability to span many different worlds is a function of something intrinsic to their personality, some combination of curiosity, self-confidence, sociability, and energy.

self-consciousness is the enemy of "interestingness.

Art thou not he? Art thou Montezuma?

when explorers began traveling across oceans and undertaking bold expeditions in previously unknown territory, an entirely new kind of encounter emerged. Cortés and Montezuma wanted to have a conversation, even though they knew nothing about the other. When

If the teacher is actually doing something interesting, these kids are quite capable of being engaged. Instead of responding in a 'let me control your behavior' way, the teacher needs to think, 'How can I do something interesting that will prevent you from misbehaving in the first place?