Quotes About Curiosity

She could have ... People still wanted to know.

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to literature.

I always tried to really motivate kids by getting them excited about stuff – and even being a little mysterious about it, just saying, "I don't know. We got this stuff. We have to figure it out. It's up to you guys," and then lay something on them. And I always found that really piqued their interest better than lecturing them.

There must be something that fascinates us more when things go wrong.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. —Eden Phillpotts Just

They were talking about me, I was sure of it. And I couldn't for the life of me imagine why. I continued inspecting the asparagus, early peas, and summer squash—produce that my mother had, as usual, commissioned me to procure for the tavern.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.

At first I was queasy I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

He had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, in the pursuit of which he spared no cost nor pains.

searching the sky from high above to below the horizon, gradually working around until he reached the right and the rear.

How strange to feel yourself falling in love with someone you've only just met.

I vaguely mind people knowing anything I don't know. --Paul McCartney

life is much like a movie we walk into well after its opening scene, and we will have to step out long before most of the story lines reach their conclusions. We are acutely aware that we need to know a great deal if we are to understand the few confusing minutes that we do watch. Of course, we don't know exactly what it is that we don't know, so we can't frame the question well. We ask, "What is the meaning of life?

Students are treated like candles, which can be extinguished by a puff of wind. The goal of a Socratic education should be to turn them into fires, which thrive on the wind.

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.

Animals that fly seem to violate the laws of physics, but only until you learn a bit more about physics.

It depends on what you think is the purpose of education. Hanna Holborn Gray, the president of the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993, once offered this principle: "Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think."40

It's exciting how much there is to learn; several lifetime's worth, really.

Most people aren't overly afflicted with curiosity. It separates the creative and the tormented from the rest of the pack. —

opens it." "So what're you

does Ms. Garcia hang

Not a word about the tiny bones. I wondered why a married woman would avoid the plural form.

This is how you have adventures. You find cool things and you do them ... you don't just read books about them!