#Curiosity

"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."

"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 the panis angelorum."

"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."

"Curiosity is the pleasure of seeking"

"The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking."

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

"Everything interested him and everything excited him."

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

"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 degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

"Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act."

"I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but these are only leaves springing from a root out of dry ground. His vital forces are not fed,and very soon he has given out his all."

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

"What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything."

"... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow."

"I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge."

"I was like I was in science class: I was curious."