Freya Stark Quotes

You do what you like because you just follow your curiosity, and you are happy when you find new things about nature, about how things work around us and inside us.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

Education is not just you learn how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

I'm insatiably curious.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

... things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Everything is an experiment.