Learning is by nature curiosity… prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

It has always been one of my main endeavors as a teacher to persuade the young that first-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than second-hand knowledge, but it is usually much easier and...

Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.

Waandishi wanapaswa kuwa wadadisi, kama paka, ijapokuwa udadisi ni hatari.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

Curiosity also makes a great student.

It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path.

Stay in the boat, I told myself, watching them walk up to the pavilion. I’ll just stay in the boat. I won’t go anywhere near that creature.But in spite of that wise warning, I climbed...

That’s always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you’re stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.

Movies lost their appeal when people realized their real lives were more interesting.

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn’t know.

Reality is a complex phenomenon, filled with dimensions, not the least of which are two that Christians affirm and understand: the physical and the spiritual. We are invited by Cervantes to enter into Don Quixote’s...

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable...

The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work must be resisted for they never fit together again.

To live without zest is to live without an appetite for new experiences, to miss out on the spice, the juice, the edge that makes life thrilling. It is to live with deadened, flattened senses,...

Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: “He taught the love of truth.

Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social skills of British politicianBenjamin Disraeli and his rival William Gladstone illustrates … The...

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they’re best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish – we’re famous for travelling in search of adventure.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking a Chesterfield. The dessert dishes were still on the table. My...

Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under...

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.