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.

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The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may...

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Kids are the alltimechampions of questioning. What could you gain by imitatingthe innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get ananswer?

Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections.

Nina matatizo ya kiafya: Udadisi wa hali ya juu wa kiakili.

Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.

Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.

If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!

It’s not a silly question if you can’t answer it.

That low vice, curiosity!

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

Curiosity leads to knowledge.Knowledge leads to understanding.Understanding leads to love.Love leads to harmony.Be curious.

Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It...

When he had ended, the holy hermit was a moment silent, then said: “My son, I have attended to thy story and I know the maiden. I have myself seen her, as have many. Know,...

A man should go on living — if only to satisfy his curiosity.

All topics should be studied through the lens of the Gospel.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students...

I believe in always being open to learning more through exploration of everything available and following one’s sense of curiosity, creativity, and playfulness.

The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many others whose public achievements are of note – a “gift for friendship”. McCullough says Adams, despite his towering intellect...

Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling

It’s daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest...

He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I’m aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization...

She’d been mad for him as a girl, but she’d chalked that up to youthful infatuation. She’d tracked the events of his life religiously for a decade, but she’d told herself that was idle curiosity....

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.

Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.

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 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...

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.

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.