Walter Isaacson Quotes

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

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.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

Curiosity is the main energy.

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

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

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?

Never...stop at the boundaries of what you think your knowledge or training would suggest. If a problem grabs you, run with it and try to understand it from beginning to end, even if that means learning new techniques or developing them yourself.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.