Quotes About Curiosity

What we often mistake for frailty in children is their openness to experience.

As soon as I learned from my mother that there was a place called school that I must attend willy nilly --- a place where you were obliged to think about matters prescribed by a 'teacher,' not about matters decided by yourself---I was appalled.

Damn queer," he announced. "But lots of things damn queer. Damn queer that Moon looks just same size as Sum. Damn queer that I'm here, isn't it so?

Damn queer," he announced. "But lots of things damn queer. Damn queer that Moon looks just same size as Sun. Damn queer that I'm here, isn't it so?

As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in the garden, wondering "if he had ever heard of another woman who, being approached by a serpent, would not excuse herself and break for the nearest timber." Twain recalled, "He did not answer my question, but rebuked me for inquiring into matters above my age and comprehension.

It's good to be curious about many things.

It's very important, no matter what you may do professionally, to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.

For Rogers, the very act of asking questions, and trying to answer them honestly, was the key to growing and learning: "We can't always know what's behind a child's question. But if we let a child know we respect the question, we're letting that child know that we respect him or her. What a powerful way to say, "I care about you!

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

Everything about him aroused my curiosity: the care with which he selected his pencils, the way he sat — erect, as if at any moment he might have to get up and give an order to an invisible army — and how he stroked his blond hair. I only relaxed when he, like everyone else, got bored and fidgeted whilst waiting for the bell for the interval between lessons.

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To be wise is to be eternally curious.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.

Dites vite ! Je veux bien mourir de n'importe quoi, sauf de curiosité, mon brave ami !» —C'est toi le venin

A veces quisiera estar dentro de tu cabeza, para para saber que es lo que piensas, sientes

Der Inhalt der Physik geht die Physiker an, die Auswirkung alle Menschen.

solo la non conoscenza del futuro ci rende sopportabile il presente. Mi sono sempre stupito e continuo a stupirmi immensamente che gli uomini siano tanto smaniosi di conoscere il futuro. Sembra quasi che preferiscano l'infelicità alla felicità.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience -- they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?