“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“People aren’t curious about themselves. People don’t look under the hood, they don’t go for a tune-up, so they make the same mistakes over and over again, all the while being mystified that they’ve found themselves on I’m Fucked road again.”— Ryan O'Connell, mylivejournalsucks.tumblr.com
“You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?" These are profound, important questions. They just…”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice.”— Aletheia Luna, amazon.com
“Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying ‘I’m going to be 30 – oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!”— Betty White, m.imdb.com
“I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I’m surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you’re different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they c…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Mr. Clarke: 'Hello?' Dustin: 'Mr Clarke, it's Dustin.' Mr. Clarke: 'Dustin? Is everything okay?' Dustin: 'Ye-yeah, I just, I, I have a... science question.' Mr. Clarke: 'It's ten o'clock on Saturday. Why don't we pick this up on...' Dustin: 'Do you know anything about sensory deprivation tanks? Spec…”— Ross Duffer, Matt Duffer, netflix.com
“Look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, ‘That’s interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did yesterday. Maybe it’s water weight. Maybe it’s my outfit. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me.’ I know it’s not possible f…”— Jenni Schaefer, amazon.com
“Walk with those who are looking for the truth, run from those who think they have found it.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“Sometimes I want to know what you're thinking of. But then I get scared I'm not on your list.”— Shahd El Hadidy, facebook.com
“It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.”— Jack Finney, goodreads.com
“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.”— Patrick Rothfuss, amazon.com
“Instead of asking yourself, 'How can they think that?!' ask yourself, 'I wonder what information they have that I don’t?' Instead of asking, 'How can they be so irrational?' ask, 'How might they see the world such that their view makes sense?'”— Douglas Stone, amazon.com