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...