I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.

Good sociologists have always had an insatiable curiosity about even the trivialities of human behaviour, and if this curiosity leads a sociologist to devote many years to the painstaking exploration...

Education is free. Though the education I refer to is not confined to a stuffy old building that still manages to retain its charm – don't get me wrong, I love my school – but it's out there in...

When he is cheerful - - when the sun shines into his mind - - then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

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.

She {Mme des Laumes} belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.

She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange,...

Come on then, I will swear to study so to know the thing I am forbidden to know - Berowne

Nothing is so difficult that it cannot be discovered by seeking.

"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe...

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it?

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

I tried to explain again. 'Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favourite song that you knew off by...

He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and...