Quotes about Curiosity

Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.

We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.

In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is that he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.

What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.