David McCullough Quotes

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Curiosity is the main energy.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

You have to have curiosity in life. The moment you don't have any more curiosity, then don't do anything. Retire and stay in your house.

Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

People are curious and want to know about stuff.