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.

When we aren’t curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.” -The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation...

Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher – a body of knowledge that she will dispense in chunks and that they...

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings...

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious,and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.

And what cats have to tellon each return from hellis this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not knowthat...

You will find that your library in Heaven contains only some of the books you had on Earth, the ones you gave away or lent.

I assume you are the sort of person who would go backstage after the opera in hopes of hearing the prima donna crying on the telephone, or walking in on the baritone fellating the basso...

Waandishi ni wadadisi.

A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a...

Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of...

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

above”. Eva, basically, represents the curiosity of science against the passive acceptance that belongs to faith.

And I’m not assuming and I’m not judging. I’m just being curious.

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

What’s up?

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up...

E = mc2 Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn’t die out, it’s wiped out.

Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded.

I had never seen a real live dead person.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side?

Empathy is a special application of the imagination. The ability to imagine what it would be like to experience what someone else is experiencing can be crucial to moral sensitivity.

Historians are great gossips at a high level.

There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.

All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they meet...

Editors are licensed to be curious.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian . . . handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with “girls’stories” such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

I’m a dilettante. My governing word is ‘curiosity.’

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

He turned the presidency – and the President’s House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader...

… what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.

En cierta ocasión Demócrito comió en su mesa unos higos que sabían a miel y empezó de inmediato a indagar en su espíritu de dónde provenía tal dulzura inusitada. A fin de esclarecerlo, iba a...

Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

I don’t know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.