It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It’s part of our...

Live on no complex dreams… When the meaning of what you want to do isn’t clear, it means there is absolutely no meaning! Simplicity with curiosity is the lap on which success rests!

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

Rather than literally burning the midnight oil, which he judged to be unhealthy, John Adams advised his son to make the most of college by developing an inquisitive outlook that would prompt him to get...

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don’t be surprised to see him/her...

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

Dr. Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and all minds capable of openness and curiosity. This is not a bedtime story...

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the...

Desire to know why, and how — curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge — exceedeth the short vehemence of any...

Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

It’s a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that...

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the...

Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity.(“Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume”)

Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes...

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.

Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there’s any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never...

The proper study of man is everything.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn.

Guyal of Sfere had been born one apart from his fellows and early proved a source of vexation for his sire. Normal in outward configuration, there existed within his mind a void that ached for...

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

The knowledge of all things is possible

There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I’d come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over...

Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

Teaching is different today. Teachers don’t just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we’re ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

The problem with a man is, he is no more a child.

I tried to explain again. ‘Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favourite song that you knew...

The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought to have been carefully neutralized or locked, since it was unreasonable to expect...

Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven’t yet found a way to learn from them.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It’s accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

Our lives are marked by the people who choose to matter more: the teacher who encouraged our curiosity, the neighbor who lent a helping hand in time of need, the great leaders and perceptive thinkers...

People will say,”there’s heaven and hell”, and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

He wrote as a young man that God’s noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough...

Desire to know why, and how – curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge – exceedeth the short vehemence of any...

CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to...