What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The slaving Poor are incapable of any Principles: Gentlemen may be converted to true Principles, by Time and Experience. The middling Rank… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
“He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity. — Finneas Copy Share Image
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“If a traveller was to feel personally involved with (rather than guiltily obedient towards) 'the walls and ceilings of the church decorated… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I have a natural curiosity about things, in general. I'm constantly trying to find out how things work and how I can… — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image