May have killed the cat; more likely the cat was just unlucky, or else curious to see what death was like, having… — Alastair Reid Copy Share Image
The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Wonder is a verb. An activity, like walking or eating cheese. Despite what we may think we are all already philosophers; the… — Thomas Swanson Copy Share Image
We don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we're curious...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.… — Tony Schwartz Copy Share Image
“I think we’ve lost our awareness of what “wonder” really means: the more we content ourselves with the narrow confines of our… — James Runcie Copy Share Image
“Or is there a natural curiosity and sense of wonder that arises and puts you very much in touch with all of… — Nirmala Copy Share Image
“That is the hazard in curiosity, I thought: all the certainties fragment and dissolve. A man curious enough and persistent enough might… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Intelligent machines will continue that mechanization process, taking over the more menial aspects of cognition and elevating our mental lives towards creativity,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
“I was electrified by this theory, I could feel my footsteps dancing and I begin to laugh. I was perfectly aware that… — Jacqueline Harpman Copy Share Image
We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'm a grafter, I like working, but like for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the film company only paid me for… — Jason Flemyng Copy Share Image
“and I did not ask. Later I felt bad about this. I knew, even then, that whenever I nodded along in ignorance,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Even the most liberal reporters I know have a sense of drive and curiosity about what the Clintons are hiding, because they… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is about picking up an idea or a combination of ideas, then, like a toddler with its toys - twisting, turning,… — Monaristw Copy Share Image
A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life. When he has the daring to open doors… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all… — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image