curiosity

For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and savoring teachers who seemed to be ambassadors from other, richer, writer worlds. Jefferson believed Williamsburg "the finest school of manners and morals that ever existed in America.

Curiosity is the ultimate power tool.

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

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than __hat's up?

He turned the presidency _ and the President's House _ into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to literature.

You are not a human being if you don't have a curiosity.

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

The path between faith and understanding demands both obedience and inquiry. If Christianity is true, if it goes to the center of the universe and explains every stone and leaf the way we Christians think, then the more we search it out and explore it the more reasons we will have to be confident in that truth.

A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher _ a body of knowledge that she will dispense in chunks and that they have to swallow and digest.

Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.

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

We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.