Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures

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.

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

Curiosity is a call from knowledge.

I think I’m more curious than I used to be – curious about why people live like they do and how they make sense of their time… Do they see how the sun has made...

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

Her grandmother had once told her that one of life’s best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish — to just ask the question.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or...

Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .’He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting from foot to foot, his waterproof trousers rattling like the bulls’ bladders that...

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…. [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into...

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips…

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

Adults envy the open-hearted and open-minded explorations of children; seeing their joy and curiosity, we pine for our own capacity for wide-eyed wonder.

A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don’t call it madness.

Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular what surrounds us; a certain relentlessness to break up our familiarities and to...

Ten minutes later, I chance a second look. They say curiosity killed the cat. I wonder what that cat was looking at, and was it as interesting as this?

The ability to ask questions is a virtue and a trait of a free thinker.

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story “Nightfall,” about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight...

Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly and political affairs: he is a snoop and a voyeur; he comments and...

More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which...

The “hillbilly” girls were generating more enriched Tubealloy per run than the PhDs had…The District Engineer understood perfectly. Those girls…had been trained like soldiers. Do what you’re told. Don’t ask why.

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

If the spirit of wonder & curiosity stays alive in us, then surely we will always have new questions, and always expand our creativity in response?

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

We’ll choose knowledge no matter what, we’ll maim ourselves in the process, we’ll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or...

Why? is the boy’s motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it’s all grist to the mill of why.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed.”I grinned. “Then I daresay it’s good I’m a woman.

Replace Fear of Radiation with Curiosity

Curiosity is mother of all inventions

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

This disease of curiosity.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above the...

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Remind yourself daily to spend more time being interested then interesting.

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity’s hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

Being well-read is not sufficient, and it isn’t the highest virtue to which we can strive, but it is both necessary and practical. We are, after all, people of the Great Book; no Christian leader...

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

Curiosity is the main energy…