#Curiosity

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Curiosity is more important than knowledge."

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

"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."

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

"Everything interested him and everything excited him."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

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

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