#Curiosity

"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 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 us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level."

"Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom."

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

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."

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

"I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart."

"Curiosity is more important than knowledge."

"Misfortunes make us wise"

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Isn't it a good thing we don't know everything? If we did, we wouldn't have a reason to have curiosity, and curiosity is like imagination, taking us back to the time when we were just children in our own fantasylands."

"The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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