Quotes About Curiosity

Ich bin ein Privatier und professioneller Flaneur, ich habe viel Zeit und Muße zum Beobachten. Und ich habe alle Herles-Olmshock-Romane von Olyander Conthura gelesen - zigmal! Das schult das detektivische Auge und die Kombinationsgabe ungemein!

Lest soviel ihr könnt! Lest Straßenschilder und Speisekarten, lest die Anschläge im Bürgermeisteramt, lest von mir aus Schundliteratur - aber lest! Lest! Sonst seid ihr verloren!

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.

Die Neugier ist die mächtigste Antriebskraft im Universum, weil sie die beiden größten Bremskräfte im Universum überwinden kann: die Vernunft und die Angst.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Mientras la mente rígida está petrificada y cerrada al cambio y la mente líquida es gaseosa, la mente flexible posee un cuerpo modificable. No está fija en un punto ni se desliza por cualquier parte sin rumbo, sino que posee una dirección renovable. A la mente flexible le gusta el movimiento, la curiosidad, la exploración, el humor, la creatividad, la irreverencia y, por sobre todo, ponerse a prueba.

Este impulso a investigar que mueve a los individuos, ayuda a que el sistema conductual heredado se enriquezca y aumente el repertorio de recursos para afrontar peligros y preverlos. Es una forma de autoestimulación que desarrolla más  sustancia blanca del cerebro (mielinización) para que podamos aprender más y mejor. Explorar es curiosear y la curiosidad es uno de los factores que ha permitido la evolución y mantenimiento de la vida en el planeta.

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia. JORGE LUIS BORGES

Titubear sin angustia, tantear, cuestionar o sospechar no son defectos, forman parte de una mente escudriñadora y naturalmente incrédula e inconformista.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Sara bit her lip, drawing blood, as she reflected on the many times she'd questioned Mama about her biological father. Who was he, where did he live, and how come Mama refused to talk about

socrates. There's one proposition that I'd defend to the death, if I could, by argument and by action: that as long as we think we should search for what we don't know, we'll be better people—less faint-hearted and less lazy—than if we were to think that we had no chance of discovering what we don't know and that there's no point in even searching for it. Meno 86bc

Aporia can not only prepare you to learn but make you want to learn.4 It feels frustrating. In effect Socrates says: good—now get going on the search for an answer, this time with a better sense of the work it takes. You are made hungry for knowledge by discovering how little you have.

On a Socratic view it's never time to give up. We do better by accepting that the search probably has no end but going on anyway as if it might. For even if you can't possess the truth, you can get closer to it.

nothing to be done, except go see them. I also knew they

Just asking Why and What If will not necessarily cause these neural connections to occur—but questioning can help nourish the trees and extend the reach of those branches.

It also helps to have a wide base of knowledge on all sorts of things that might seem to be unrelated to the problem—the more eclectic your storehouse of information, the more possibilities for unexpected connections.

Always the beautiful answer Who asks a more beautiful question. —E.E. Cummings

the more general problem of schools favoring memorized answers over creative questions is nothing new. Some point out that it's built into an educational system that was created in a different time, the Industrial Age, and for a different purpose.

For a questioner, it's important to spend time with challenging questions instead of trying to answer them right away. By "living with" a question, thinking about it and then stepping away from it, allowing it to marinate, you give your brain a chance to come up with the kinds of fresh insights and What If possibilities that can lead to breakthroughs.

In some ways, Meier was trying to extend the kindergarten experience through all grades. Teaching kindergarten "was such an extraordinary intellectual experience, and I thought, Why couldn't we just keep doing that?" Only in kindergarten, she told me, "do we put up with kids asking questions that are off-topic.

Importantly, the professor was also "willing to ask questions without knowing the answer. Teachers and professors, we think our authority rests on having answers. But students find it really liberating to have a teacher say, 'I don't know the answer—so let's figure this out together.