Quotes about Curiosity

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Well, I don't quite know about that, sir. I've often thought I would like to see a ghost if I—" "Would you?" exclaimed the young lady. "We've got one! Would you try that one? Will you?

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Never let school interfere with your education

Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.

His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.

Students, and learned persons of all sorts and every age, aim as a rule at acquiring information rather than insight. They pique themselves upon knowing about everything—stones, plants, battles, experiments, and all the books in existence. It never occurs to them that information is only a means of insight, and in itself of little or no value.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.

Ohio has produced 23 astronauts. Tell me, what is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.