I am not a scholar of the past, but I am a lover of the past.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead “freed his mind” from worry and...

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

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn’t hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but these are only leaves springing from a root out of dry...

You hand over control, you start winning.

When he is cheerful–when the sun shines into his mind–then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

And also, to encompass the madness within, let us reach forth our minds.

There’s a lot of curiosity about him. We’re hearing so much about him lately, that we wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is...

…curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine… (Commissario Soneri)

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet...

You ask a lot of questions, don’t you?” “My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.

Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you’ve never allowed yourself to see.

Do Schools Kill Creativity?”—has now been viewed more than 4 million times. In it Robinson cites the fact that children’s scores on standard tests of creativity decline as they grow older and advance through the...

So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the...

Some time curiosity kill’s you but it still worth to Die for

but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn’t make him feel bad. I get it too. When he was with the bears, they didn’t care that he was kind of weird,...

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of...

I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person’s play?

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you...

Did you see the octopus?” Someone shouted after the dive. Yes, I thought, but who among us knows what it was doing? What else was THERE, just then? WHY?

Kupata maarifa kutokana na shida ni jambo la kawaida maana shida ni kipimo cha akili, lakini kupata maarifa bila shida ni hekima maana hekima ni ufunguo wa maamuzi mema na udadisi wa kiakili.

Mercy!” cried Gandalf. “If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?””The...

Let’s follow our curiosity & our joy.

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.

Curiosity fueled our determination to keep questioning.

We all wear masksto veil the truth.Truth is nakedness.Truth is fear.Truth is the gardener making you sit on his lapasking you tolight his cigarette.Truth is father— with a limp cigarette on his lips —telling you...

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Curiosity is a call from knowledge.

You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is...

The time travelers are usually adapt at ‘intercrossing’ different fields of expertise. That’s the beauty of the hobbyist: it’s generally easier to mix different intellectual fields when you have a whole array of them littering...

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.

You are not a human being if you don’t have a curiosity.

Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract from required courses, Roosevelt read widely yet managed to stand near the top of his class. The breath of his numerous...

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except… the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious...

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Op visite in zo’n ongestoffeerd huis kun je moeilijk aan de gastheer vragen of u even op zijn iPad mag kijken wat hij de laatste tijd zoal gelezen heeft.

The path between faith and understanding demands both obedience and inquiry. If Christianity is true, if it goes to the center of the universe and explains every stone and leaf the way we Christians think,...

We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala’s mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.