Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity.

The quest for knowledge never ends; it just leads to more curiosities that lead to a greater mind.

Curiosity is a call from knowledge.

CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to...

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft’s immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

I’m starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.

Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as...

Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one’s self.To mind one’s own business.Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To...

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Do the things that make your spirit soar. Be fearless.Cultivate the interests that inspire you. Nourish your curiosity and embrace what comes back to you as your gift for taking aleap forward.

Remember when your curiosity inspired your investigative mind to explore and learn… you weren’t bogged down with resentment, cynicism, and emotional baggage… just think about how great it would be to return to that mindset...

Learning is by nature curiosity… prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

It has always been one of my main endeavors as a teacher to persuade the young that first-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than second-hand knowledge, but it is usually much easier and...

Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

Waandishi wanapaswa kuwa wadadisi, kama paka, ijapokuwa udadisi ni hatari.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

Curiosity also makes a great student.

It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path.

Stay in the boat, I told myself, watching them walk up to the pavilion. I’ll just stay in the boat. I won’t go anywhere near that creature.But in spite of that wise warning, I climbed...

That’s always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you’re stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.

Movies lost their appeal when people realized their real lives were more interesting.

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn’t know.

Reality is a complex phenomenon, filled with dimensions, not the least of which are two that Christians affirm and understand: the physical and the spiritual. We are invited by Cervantes to enter into Don Quixote’s...

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable...

The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work must be resisted for they never fit together again.

To live without zest is to live without an appetite for new experiences, to miss out on the spice, the juice, the edge that makes life thrilling. It is to live with deadened, flattened senses,...

Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: “He taught the love of truth.

Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social skills of British politicianBenjamin Disraeli and his rival William Gladstone illustrates … The...

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they’re best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish – we’re famous for travelling in search of adventure.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking a Chesterfield. The dessert dishes were still on the table. My...

Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under...

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.