Quotes about Curiosity
By inspiring children to pursue interests in STEM early on, we are instilling in them the curiosity needed to show them that these fields are as equally accessible to them as anyone else.
- Jacky Rosen
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.
- Anne Lamott
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
- Oscar Wilde
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
- Oscar Wilde
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Oscar Wilde
A burnt child loves the fire.
- Oscar Wilde
When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.
- Confucius
We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said? What did he say. Said off a Dutchman.
- Cormac McCarthy