Quotes About Curiosity

people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know. The people who skip the hard questions are in the majority, but they are not in demand.

If you're able to look at what's happening in your world and say, "There's the pattern," or "Wow, that's interesting, I wonder why," then you're far more likely to respond productively than if your reaction is "How dare he!

Aceasta este secretul. Nu alergi peste tot È™i cauÈ›i toate lac?tele posibile ca s?-È›i probezi cheia. G?seÈ™ti oamenii (lac?tul) È™i, deoarece eÈ™ti curios cu privire la visurile È™i dorinÈ›ele lor, creezi o cheie doar pentru ei, una pentru care îÈ›i vor oferi bucuroÈ™i atenÈ›ie.

All effective education creates tension, because just before you learn something, you're aware you don't know it (yet).

the proven truth about creativity: it's the result of desire—the desire to find a new truth, solve an old problem, or serve someone else.

The only people we can serve are curious, dissatisfied, or bored.

Initiative is a little like creativity in that both require curiosity. Not the search for the "right" answer, as much as an insatiable desire to understand how something works and how it might work better.

The path forward is about curiosity, generosity, and connection. These are the three foundations of art.

To be willing to do new things you don't think you'll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just to tolerate it, but to prefer it.

Curious is the key word. It has nothing to do with income, nothing to do with education, and certainly nothing to do with organized religion. It has to do with a desire to understand, a desire to try, a desire to push whatever envelope is interesting. Leaders are curious because they can't wait to find out what the group is going to do next. The changes in the tribe are what are interesting, and curiosity drives them.

A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.

Curious people count. Not because there are a lot of them, but because they're the ones who talk to people who are in a stupor. They're the ones who lead the masses in the middle who are stuck. The masses in the middle have brainwashed themselves into thinking it's safe to do nothing, which the curious can't abide.

Lab assistants do what they're told. Scientists figure out what to do next.

Your Royal Grace, Forgive my boldness. If I might inquire: How old are you? —Kimber

The shelf number for the book would be inked in beside it, but each shelf contained about fifty books, so you had to hang there on the ladder and read every spine of every one until you came across yours. Let it be said that nothing was ever accomplished in haste at Iverson.

The nature of hope is curious to me. It can sustain us through the darkest of times. It can buoy us above every reasonable expectation of despair. Yet hope can shatter us just as readily as the darkness can. People refer to it as false hope, but I think that's misleading, because the feeling itself is painfully true. It is a treacherous hope, more precisely. A dangerous one.

Whoever wants to know how it's all going to end before it actually does? Only poets and madmen, I would think.

Don't be stupid, privacy is an illusion in today's electronic world. And i always investigate the people who interest me

Catherine Le Vendeur, he asked sententiously, have you known this man carnally? No father, Catherine answered. But, with your kind permission, I would very much like to.

And why do I have to tell more about the blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road?

He'd never seen one so vibrant, though, or so vividly compelling... those glowing green eyes sparkling with sunlight and curiosity and silent laughter, and when she glanced in Henry's direction, she held his gaze, a look that was both challenging and enigmatic... He was utterly certain that this was Eleanor of Aquitaine, and no less sure that the French King must be one of God's greatest fools.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way.

As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch.