Quotes about Curiosity

WONDER IS ONE OF THOSE "POSSESSIONS" THAT NEEDS DISCIPLINED GUARDING AND THOUGHTFUL GUIDING.

Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery."2

For the first time, I felt my mind being stretched — and I loved it. I realized that thinking could be fun, and with that simple realization I was sent headlong into the lifelong discipline of reading. I

Isn't it amazing that we can go through life holding passionately to our views, yet never pausing to ask ourselves why that view is inviolable?

As long as we think we know everything, we do not know anything.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.

Artists cannot be trained. One does not become an artist by acquiring certain skills or techniques, though one can use any number of skills and techniques in artistic activity. The creative is found in anyone who is prepared for surprise. Such a person cannot go to school to be an artist, but can only go to school as an artist.

Explanation sets the need for further inquiry aside; narrative invites us to rethink what we thought we knew.

although we often succeed in teaching our pupils subjects, we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think? They learn everything, except the art of learning.

I say, Parker, these are funny cases, ain't they? Every line of inquiry seems to peter out. It's awfully exciting up to a point, you know, and then nothing comes of it. It's like rivers getting lost in the sand.

The basket was opened, and a ginger head emerged resentfully.