Quotes About Curiosity

Great Stories for Children

Adventure is when a child crawls across the floor, grabs the leg of a chair, and stands up for the first time.

That is another of the attractions of Tramping to nowhere in particular - the finding of somewhere in particular, the striking up of friendships, the discovery of new Springs and waterfalls,unusual pants, rare flowers,strange birds. In the hills a new Vista opens up at every bend in the road. That is what makes me a compulsive walker - new vistas,and the charm of unexpected.

What could I do about finding a girl I had seen only twice, who had hardly spoken to me, and about whom I knew nothing—absolutely nothing—but for whom I felt a tenderness and responsibility that I had never felt before?

Mozambique and Timbuctoo. We took long walks together, explored old ruins, chased butterflies and waved to passing

I do not mind difficulties, as long as they are new difficulties.

Adventure is when a child crawls across the floor, grabs the leg of a chair, and stands up for the first time.  

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

But when you're a kid it's like you're wearing these binoculars strapped to your eyes and you can't see anything except what's in the dead center of the lenses

Russell Hoban

Where are we?' the mouse child asked his father. His voice was tiny in the stillness of the night. 'I don't know' the father replied. 'What are we Papa?'. 'I don't know. We must wait and see'.

Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere.

It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years' time would be christened New Jersey, was in fact the backdoor of China, that India, with its steamy profusion of gods and curries, lay just beyond those bluffs.

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

Books were my hobby, even as a child,' he told me. 'I read about every book in Milkwaukee Public Library before I was 15...Some of the books I didn't understand- but I read them just the same. I believed, you see, that my life work would be teaching, so I wanted to learning everything I could about every possible subject.

a little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

What matters isn't how experienced you are—it's how willing you are to ponder questions with no easy answers.

get to fly while you're still a little

I use to be panicked, but know I'm curious!

Science teachers give their students the keys to unlocking the secrets of the world around them.

I was just going to look. With fire.

There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.