For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

ut curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards

Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the question.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious,and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.