I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

- Abraham Lincoln

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so foaming, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

- Soren Kierkegaard

The educator with a democratic vision or posture cannot avoid in his teaching praxis insisting on the critical capacity, curiosity, and autonomy of the learner.

- Paulo Freire

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

- Anne Sullivan

A humanist has four leading characteristics -- curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

- E. M. Forster

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

- Richard Feynman

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle

Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences - and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on -- whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made... But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe -- and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

- LInus Pauling

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

- Linus Pauling

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

- Mark Twain

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

- Alice Miller

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense -- the result of judgment and experience -- which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

- Linus Pauling

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

- Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

- Albert Einstein

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

- Isaiah Berlin

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

- Ellen Parr



I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

- Eleanor Roosevelt



The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards

- Anatole France