| It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. |
| I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. |
| Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. |
| Curiosity is a willing, a proud, and eager confession of ignorance. |
| Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. |
| Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. |
| It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. |
| It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. |
| The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. |
| The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. |