462 quotes found
“More depended on the student than on the school.”
“Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.”
“By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.”
“We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley”
“If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.”
“She was an experimental child but compassionate with it.”
“It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind...”
“I had never met another who loved my mind more than my body. I could feel his curiosity finger-walk through my thoughts... intentional and hard. Absorbing me. Learning me. And as he leaned in and h...”
“But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic fli...”
“Library science was the foundation of all sciences.”
“If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.”
“To live without zest is to live without an appetite for new experiences, to miss out on the spice, the juice, the edge that makes life thrilling. It is to live with deadened, flattened senses, with...”
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
“Curiosity killed the cat, but not before teaching her that honey bees are not sweet, tweeting birds are slow to react, mice can serve as both toys and food, big dogs like to snuggle, falling isnt f...”
“There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.”
“Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.”
“Be inquisitive. Open your eyes, open your minds to things you don't necessarily know even exist. I think that's an important part of learning and growing. The more [you]'re willing to ask, the more...”
“The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.”
“The mind delights in making connections.”
“When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.”
