Quotes About Curiosity

Heidi came running in, "Grandfather can the sun still laugh at me? she asked

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams , November 13 1816 }

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor's prohibited list.

Arrgh, my dad's here to pick me up. How can he be so insensitive to intrigue?

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Yes, there is happiness to be found in the mere contemplation of the deepest mysteries.

How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.

A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probably there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

The genius of Cornell is that he sees and enables us to see with the eyes of childhood, before our vision got clouded by experience, when objects like a rubber ball or a pocket mirror seemed charged with meaning, and a marble rolling across a wooden floor could be as portentous as a passing comet.

Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.

The professor believed in thought. He was always telling his students that you could get to the unknown by using the known. If you just put the facts that you knew together in the proper way, you might get some truly amazing results.

Lots of nuns around lately. Suppose there's a convention or something?" – Alaric or Leo.

I learned that spell fifty years ago,' he mumbled as he lit his pipe. 'And I still don't know what it's for.

Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself.

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over-there it is in the water!

The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.