Quotes About Curiosity

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

It is not simply in wonder but in love that philosophy begins.

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Cowboy: 'Come and see the barn.' Visitor: 'I've loved barns ever since I was a little girl.

Freud knew the answers. If you don't understand something about sex, don't say it's awful or mysterious. Look it up in Freud.

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

Knowledge crunching is an exploration, and you can't know where you will end up.

Do not perceive through overly judgmental eyes, prone to damnation. If you do, you are constrained to witness nothing but your notion of perfection, either fulfilled or violated. Gaze at life rather as though you were always blessing it, consecrating it, humbly, as holy, and then your biases will be relaxed and your curiosity will be aroused and surprise; there, in your peripheral, a glimmer after which you go, and it is gone, but its absence gleams.

He listened to everyone but his heart kept asking why.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.

Picture a litter of kittens. One is more curious than the next. One is more aggressive than the next. One is a leader, and another is a follower. The first is not potentially curious; she is already curious. The second is not potentially aggressive; he is already aggressive. The third and the fourth are not potentially leaders and followers; they are already that. In exactly the same way a human infant is not potentially smart; he is already smart.

We need to be brave enough to dissect a frog now and then, to see what's inside.

They believed that in watching these burnings and dissections, they had an actual window into hell itself.

But he is now suddenly untouched by its charms. He seems for the first time to sense that there might be something more. Something is troubling him that he's only just beginning to sense, whose shape he can hardly yet make out in the dim light.

Wilberforce is having thoughts now that seem utterly strange and foreign.

When I say poetry changed the way I see the world I mean it taught me to be attentive, to be curious, to be empathic, to understand both the power and danger of language itself." —Eric Pankey on "What Poetry Changes

This reductionist vision is reflected in the evolution of his work. Perhaps Mondrian also implicitly realized that by excluding certain angles and focusing only on others he might pique the beholder's curiosity and imagination about the omissions.

if you are asking, you're not there yet.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

Excuse me, young elven princess, but have you heard the word of your lord and savior, Diablo, today?