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.

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...

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.

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 has its own reason for existence.

Are you missing the library again?” Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room.Kendra turned to face her brother. “You caught me,” she congratulated him. “I’m reading.””I bet the librarians back home are...

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

Knowledge is the best economy we can have.

I like curiosity. It’s a mind game, not a necessity.

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…

Curiosity is always good if it is aimed at learning.

Foi então que a viu. Num beco escuro, onde a luz mal tocava, estava uma rapariga. Espreitava timidamente a festa, encolhendo-se sempre que se ouvia um ruído mais forte.

No man would find an abiding strangeness on the Moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Inventory:”Four be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I’d been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and...

I don’t need you to agree with me,” she said quietly.” I’ll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It’s an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed...

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.