Curiosity Quotes - Page 8
Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.39, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.491
Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.
Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.10, Stenhouse Publishers
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep 1958.
Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage
Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.43, Scholastic Inc.
Sir Charles Lyell (1837). “Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface are Referable to Causes Now in Operation”, p.305
Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.44
Victor Hugo (1894*). “The Novels Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo”