Quotes About Curiosity

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

You can't really explain why things happen.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I'm a thinker and feeler and dreamer and explorer.

I suddenly realize why David Attenborough is the giant he is. It is not just his geographic curiosity, not just his anthropological understanding, not just his gift for narration that simultaneously calms the soul and inspires the mind. It is that behind it all there is such a deep thinker.

I think it's fairly unique to define the end goal of K-12 schooling as helping students become better thinkers, more creative thinkers, and to organize the whole school around creative and critical thinking.

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

I would say that the directors that I've liked the most are all curious in nature - curious thinkers. They're all big questioners, I would say, first and foremost.

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

I am a student of good and bad, and I've always been inquisitive. I never want to be the know-it-all in a room. I want to be in the room of those that are thinkers and people that are compassionate, people that have drive and ambition. I'm always driven by it.

Critical thinking and curiosity are the key to creativity.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.