Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.
...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.
