Quotes About Curiosity

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

I've got another reason for you to come." "Try me." Gelfand shot the empty beer bottle in the garbage can and tried to sound interested. "You got anything better to do?

Why is something done this way? Is this the best way it can be done?" You have to be fundamentally skeptical about everything.

one of the greatest lessons that comes from meditation is that a relaxed curiosity about life and sleepwalking through it are two radically different choices

If we are able to take responsibility for our own mind, then we can work with whatever life throws at us without resentment or blame, and with the curiosity and self-care that are necessary for mindfulness to develop in all aspects of life. On this basis, we can also help others.

With natural curiosity, the practice of mindfulness becomes effortless.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Isn't it possible—sometime—to try to know too much? There is such a thing as looking too closely, mon ami. And then we pay the price.

The gods have sent you a gift, and because you don't know what it is made of, you are going to pull it to pieces to find out. And presently you will fling it away because you cannot fit it together again

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.

I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While" to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn't nearly so important; it comes in its own time.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

The mark of a certain kind of genius is the ability and energy to keep returning to the same task relentlessly, imaginatively, curiously, for a lifetime. Never give up and go on to something else; never get distracted and be diverted to something else.

Gabriel Marcel wrote that life is not so much a problem to be solved as a mystery to be explored.

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.

Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

The more we learn about the planet, the stranger it becomes to us.

A bit of philosophizing leads to a wonderment of life. A lot of philosophizing leads to a contempt of it.

This is the year that everyone is trying to fly around the world in a balloon. I don't know why.