#Curiosity

"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh."

"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."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"More depended on the student than on the school."

"It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here."

"Misfortunes make us wise"

"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."

"Curiosity is a call from knowledge."

"It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense."

"Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world."

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

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

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."

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

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

"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words."

"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."

"Smile out loud! Make them wonder."

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

"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."