Curiosity
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Joy
in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all
- that has been my religion.
~
John Burroughs
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In
order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first
century and beyond, we must nurture rather than
repress children’s natural curiosity. We must
encourage them to be curious, instead of fearful,
toward other cultures.
-- Paul K. Chappell
The
right tools for solving disputes within our community
are precision instruments such as reason, communication,
empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are
also the right tools for building a global civilization
of peace and prosperity.
-- Paul K. Chappell
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What
is a scientist after all? It is a curious man
looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,
trying to know what's going on.
-- Jacques Cousteau
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Once
we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder,
spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals
the human spirit.
-- e. e. cummings“
Be
less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
-- Marie Curie
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“The
important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity
has its own reason for existing. One cannot help
but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries
of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure
of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to
comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
Never lose a holy curiosity.” -- Albert
Einstein
It
is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein
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A
teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity,
knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.
-- Eve Garrison
So
curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of
staying young or youthful.
-- Goldie Hawn
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Research
is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying
with a purpose.
-- Zora Neale
Hurston
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Children
are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor,
for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams,
the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
~ Aldous Huxley
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I
have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and
propels me forward.
-- Rachel McAdams
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"...Why
is compassion not part of our established curriculum,
an inherent part of our education? Compassion,
awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -
these are the very foundation of any real civilisation,
no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any
one church, but belonging to everyone, every child
in every school."
-- Yehudi Menuhin
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In
my mind, the purpose of education is to enable
human beings to develop to their full potential,
intellectually and spiritually. That means that
students have to be empowered to pursue self-knowledge
and the skills that will help them be of service
to their fellow human beings. Education should
encourage people to develop their curiosity about
life; above all, it should not trivialize either
the students or their lives.
-- Michael Nagler
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Satisfaction
of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources
of happiness in life.
-- Linus Pauling
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his
back on life.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
I
think, at a child's birth, if a mother could
ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most
useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life
blood of real civilization.
~ George Trevelyan
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Curiosity
is the wick in the candle of learning.
--William
Arthur Ward
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