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 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.

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 begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

The scholar’s greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

Socrates told us, “the unexamined life is not worth living.” I think he’s calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the...

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.

You will allow that one’s curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

Research; the curiosity to find the unknown to make it known.

One of the many drawbacks of this “I teach what I am” approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor’s expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.

I am most right because I realize I am most wrong

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

I’m fat because I’m greedy, and if my mind is fat it’s because I’m curious.

To see persons looking with children’s eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience…

To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don’t need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you...

Why-why-why!… Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything!

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

Nature … has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has...

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.

Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

I’m a sucker for curiosity’s whims.Does that make me a cat person?

Intelligence comes with hard work and curiosity for the unknown.

‘And satisfaction brought it back.