Quotes About Curiosity

Machines are fully functional from the day of their programming." Erasmus sounded smug. "That explains a lot. For us, life is a gradual developmental process. Without nurturing, we can't survive," she said. "You have never been nurtured. I think you should make improvements to the way you raise the slave children in your pens. Show them more kindness, encourage their curiosity.

Any training school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

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Salad-anna-sconn, lookit yurr 'ee come.

Damn. How much time did you spend in the library? "I am a library.

Break the rules as often as you can, because who the hell doesn't want to have an adventure?

I hope there are other animals my age out there. I always wanted to kill a baby goat!

but anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.

A trip to the market in the morning to buy bread, an afternoon spent reading in a cafe—nothing was routine; a strange place helped you find the poetry in everyday life.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.

The only skill that will be important in the twenty-first century will be the skill of learning new skills. All else will eventually become obsolete.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." – Isaac Newton

It is a pity that Earth has lost its dragons, for they added immeasurably to the strangeness of our world. This, it seemed to me, was a good thing.

the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

In 1875, when young Max Planck announced his interest in physics, the chairman of his physics department suggested he study something more exciting. Physics, he said, was just about complete: "All the important discoveries have already been made.

In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation.

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A successful investor is generally a well-rounded individual who puts a natural curiosity and an intellectual interest to work.

Inquiry doesn't have a motive. It doesn't teach a philosophy. It's just investigation.

We're all five-year-olds. We don't know how to do this thing called life. We're just learning how.

A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I'm so great but because in order to get to me you have to take a path through literature, not through some books bought out of curiosity at the bookstore. A reader of mine has to have read other things.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

Why in the world are you a Republican?