Quotes about Curiosity
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle
As a child, when I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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.
— Madeleine L'Engle
People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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.
— Madeleine L'Engle
What distinguishes success from failures is that the successes constantly thirst for new ideas and knowledge.
— Robin Sharma
The difference in the quality of life between people can be found in the quality of the questions they ask themselves
— Mensah Oteh
Your life is a reflection of the quality of the questions you ask yourself and others.
— Mensah Oteh