Can watching video lessons or using interactive software make people smart? No. But I would argue that it can do something even… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and… — Eileen Collins Copy Share Image
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Quest. Say it, reader. Say the word "quest" lout loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I am writing to make sure that kids don't lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Be light-hearted, light-footed. Be of light step. Don't carry religion like a burden. And don't expect religion to be a teaching; it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The Curiosity Principle The best broadcast interviewers earn trust by displaying genuine interest, as if there is nowhere else they’d rather be.… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away)… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life.… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
“It must have been unpleasant to be discussed as a curiosity, spoken about over breakfast, and between rounds at billiards, as if… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose… — Tharman Shanmugaratnam Copy Share Image
“I have found a higher calling; inspirational-writing! I can’t imagine myself doing any other work, when I ought to write and transmit,… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
“And now you see why some facts, some pieces of knowledge, have to be snuffed out as soon as they form. Curiosity… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it's up the individual and… — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to… — Ted Allen Copy Share Image
I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say,… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
“The presence of the other, which can be very threatening, becomes, in play, a delightful source of curiosity, and this curiosity contributes… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“I had, of course, sworn never to let the place cross my mind again; but human beings can't help being curious, I… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I did it once, and National Geographic recruited me. I did it primarily out of curiosity. A lot of legendary photographers had… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Often, ageing has more to do with your brain than your body. Some people become old and jaded at 25, and some,… — Suhasini Mulay Copy Share Image
If Death Grips isn't the fourth horseman of a hip-hop apocalypse, its music at least tests the genre's threshold of extremity: The… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
“When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
