Quotes about Curiosity

People always ask me: "Why?! Oh God why?!" Mostly at the beach.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

I am going to seek a great Perhaps.

I have only one curiosity left: death.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ALBERT EINSTEIN

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

I'm never embarrassed to say, 'I don't know.'

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.