Quotes About Curiosity

You can't blame human nature, and there was nothing more human than curiosity.

In the end, daughter of pandora that I am, my curiosity got the best of me. I wish it hadn't.

What do you read? I've never given a very satisfactory answer to that question, because it causes a kind of circuit overload in my brain. The easy answer ?Everything I can get my hands on!? is true enough, but not helpful.

Bill thought, why are they crying so far apart?

And yet rather than accommodate and moderate student curiosity, for what was after all the best belles lettres and modern science, the theologians responded with interdiction and persecution, as if they had something to fear. In other words, it was less the circle than the seminary itself that was fomenting radicalism, albeit unwittingly.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

T. S. Eliot's observation: We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow.

ONCE EINSTEIN SAW the needle of a compass at the age of four, he always understood that there had to be "something behind things, something deeply hidden.

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time." —T.S. Eliot

Again, T. S. Eliot expresses so beautifully my own personal discovery and conviction: "We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

But there's something about sitting at someone else's desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then I decided what the hell. I was a private investigator. Poking my nose in where it didn't belong came with the territory.

Still hesitating, Atiaran asked, 'What is your name?' 'That is another long story,' the Giant returned, and repeated, 'What is your need?

The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.

Something about history stirred him. He liked following in its footsteps.

Faciendi lures libros nullus est finis.

people fear what they do not understand.

how many shots were left in the clip.

what's gotten into you?

The real jewel in this distinction is that we are NEVER stuck where we are. We can learn our way through or out of anything. We have neural pathways in our brains that can support the adoption of new ways of being—no matter our ages. We have unlimited capacity for curiosity, learning, knowledge, and wisdom, throughout our lifespans. We possess the mental flexibility to move past "what we know" or—more accurately— "what we think we know.

One day, soon after the Buddha's enlightenment, a man saw the Buddha walking toward him. The man had not heard of the Buddha, but he could see that there was something different about the man who was approaching, so he was moved to ask, "Are you a god?

John Armato, a Public relations executive, cherishes his growing Library of Candidates. When people ask him if he's actually read all those books, he asks them if they've actually eaten all the food in their kitchen. It is good to put up a supply of books; it increases the odds that you'll have what you want when you're hungry for it, he says

A library is a fueling station for your mind.