Curiosity Quotes
Curiosity Quote of the day
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.
I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.
If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
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 should be curiosity.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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.
At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.
Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.
Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.
When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.
Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.
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.
She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.
(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
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?
The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us.
Curiosity is the offspring of mystery. For without mystery there be no need for curiosity. Curiosity is the search for the things that can be, it is the inspiration of the true adventurer.
Curiosity—asking questions—isn’t just a way of understanding the world. It’s a way of changing it.
We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.
