Quotes About Curiosity

As a baby, Oliver Cromwell was abducted by his grandfather's pet monkey.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

The two most important questions in science are "What can I know?" and "How can I know it?

Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." He also believed that learning had purpose, stating, "The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The best art makes your head spin with questions. Perhaps this is the fundamental distinction between pure art and pure design. While great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear. Sometimes

I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

So, am I a genius?

Just because school's boring so much of the time, that doesn't mean kids don't want to learn.

After all, it's natural for humans, isn't it? To want to learn. Being curious, wanting answers: that's the way we are.

They read all the books but they can't find the answers.

I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it. I want to get down into it. I want to say hello. On the beach, I could have stopped all day long and looked at those damned shells, looked for all the messages that come not in bottles but in shells...

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

I had wanted to become a novelist before I even knew how to read, back when I could only consume books by having them read to me, and none of them seemed long enough. They left too many questions unanswered, too many ramifications unexplored.

He was the only other Turkish person I had ever met who was actually interested in some specific field of knowledge, and who wasn't just automatically doing medicine, engineering, or the thing they called "management.

so I preferred to take highly specific classes with interesting titles, even when I hadn't taken the prerequisites and had no idea what was going on. I could see how my way might be called aesthetic.

Folded-over chips are preferable to flat chips—why is that? It's one of life's ten million mysteries.

Maia's greatest desire when she grows up is to be interesting as well. She knows that to become interesting, she must read, travel, and learn new things.

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Is there anyone in the world more fascinating than the woman you lost out to?

Investigations, meditations, careers, relationships were much the same, he mused. They failed because no one thought to ask the right question.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.