Alice Walker Quotes

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

I'm blessed to be curious about things.

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

If one does not search for things, how will he ever find anything?

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without plowing it.

Remember when you were a kid, and everyone used to say, 'Would you rather be interested or interesting?' And to me, it was always like, 'Interested!' How is that even a question? I feel very lucky that I'm just really, really interested in a lot of things.

I try to be led by my curiosity.

We're born with a curiosity about the universe. Those people who don't have a curiosity don't have it because it's gotten beaten out of them in some way.

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

I always want to know about things.

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

I had a thirst for knowledge. I was always curious about stuff.

You always need to be curious and study.

Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!

I have a curious mind.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

We're all curious about a lot of things.

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.