curiosity

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

Remember when your curiosity inspired your investigative mind to explore and learn_ you weren__ bogged down with resentment, cynicism, and emotional baggage_ just think about how great it would be to return to that mindset of unencumbered learning and adventurous living_ you are just one choice away from that life_ choose to let go of the infertile past_ go live your adventure!

I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it__ one of the innumerable languages I don__ know, even if it__ in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn__ understand and what__ said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won__ understand it.

Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up whatever her ladies-in-waiting happened to be reading. She always kept a book in her room and carried another in her pocket.

Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

Teaching is different today. Teachers don__ just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we__e ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Curiosity is always good if it is aimed at learning.

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.

The mind delights in making connections.

So, what did you learn?Curiosity asked the Cat, thenpoked her carcass with a stick.

You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.

The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.

Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.