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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward

“The knowledge of all things is possible”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

“Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
― Anatole France

“It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.”
― Luci Swindoll, I Married Adventure: Looking at Life Through the Lens of Possibility

“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”
― Leo Rosten

“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”
― Albert Einstein

“Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays: A Selection

“Curiosity is the main energy...”
― Robert Rauschenberg

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Linus Pauling”
― Linus Pauling

“Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.”
― Philo

“A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.”
― Smiley Blanton

“Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.”
― James Bridie

“The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.”
― Robert Lynd

“Why-why-why!... Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything!”
― Ann Fairbairn

“Curiosity is the engine of achievement.”
― Ken Robinson

“Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.”
― David McCullough