Quotes About Curiosity

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Children always want to look behind mirrors.

Les grands voyages ont ceci de merveilleux que leur enchantement commence avant le départ même. On ouvre les atlas, on rêve sur les cartes. On répète les noms magnifiques des villes inconnues.

was temporarily suspending my disbelief, to allow an unusual experience to happen.

You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.

A teacher should start from a young person's own present interest, she felt, and lead them into a wider and deeper understanding of the world into which they were going.

but in later life Chesterton made no secret of the fact that he didn't care for institutionalised learning, describing education as 'being instructed by somebody I did not know about something I did not want to know'.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

Count Chojnicki was curious. No other passion than curiosity sent him out into the world, drew him to the tables of the great gaming halls, sequestered him behind the walls of his old hunting pavilion, sat him down on the parliamentarians' benches, determined that he would return home every spring, compelled him to throw his regular parties, and prevented him from cutting his own throat. It was curiosity that kept him alive.

Of course, it's the things you're not told that arouse your interest. The gaps in the news are the interesting bits.

through the crack

Cloudkit was sitting under the yew bush with a couple of his littermates, explaining importantly that those were deathberries, and they must never, never eat them. Feeling amused by the young kit's seriousness, Fireheart meowed a greeting as he went by.

And it was where he had found the stick.

thought it smelled a bit odd, but when a medicine cat gives it to you—

Squirrelpaw wondered

Alderpaw realized that he was gaping like a blackbird chick waiting for food.

I'm starting to think there's something familiar about this fake Bramblestar," she murmured. "But I can't quite put my paw on what it is, or who it might actually be. I do know one thing, though," she added, meeting Shadowsight's concerned

Two identical heads rose from the heap of fur. Firestar's ears pricked with curiosity. He had never seen cats like these before. Their slender bodies were cream-colored, but their legs, tails, ears, and muzzles were brown, and they had the most brilliant blue eyes he had ever seen.

flying hedgehogs.

Cloudkit's eyes widened. "Phew, I bet she was a grump! Did she claw you?" "Only with her tongue," Fireheart replied. "And that's sharp enough!

Sandstorm had drawn a few paces ahead, and had paused at the foot of a tree to sniff the bark. "Come and look at this," she called, beckoning with her tail.

you'll find the dry bed of a winter stream. You may find something there.

It's sticking up like a bluebell!" Lionkit's tail slapped against the frozen earth.