Curiosity Quotes

"Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets."

C. V. Raman

"Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places."

Roald Dahl

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

Albert Einstein

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

Albert Einstein

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."

William Arthur Ward

"The mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently."

Plutarch

"The main object of teaching is not to explain meanings, but to knock at the door of the mind."

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

Richard Feynman

"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."

John Lubbock

"A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils."

Ever Garrison

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."

Clay P. Bedford

"Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them."

Carl Sagan

"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

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

Steve Jobs

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."

Albert Einstein

"My work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge."

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

Samuel Johnson

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

Ellen Parr

"The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth."

Irving Langmuir

"The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment."

Johannes Kepler

"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."

James Stephens

"There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten."

Jules Champfleury

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."