{"quotes":[{"text":"And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or stranded in the doldrums of America, some of them treading and some of them drowning, never feeling and never forgetting. The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now—my own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["african-americans","curiosity","frustration","perseverance","resilience","struggle"],"id":2267,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"},{"text":"It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["amazing","career-counseling","career-development","career-paths","career","choice-and-attitude","choice","choose-our-own-destiny","choose-your-battles-wisely","curiosity","curiosity-wisdom","dare-to-be-great","dare-to-seek","desires-and-dreams","desires","destiny","dreaming-awake","dreaming-dreams","dreaming-high","dreams","fulfilling-life","fulfilling-purpose","fulfilling-your-destiny","fulfilling-your-potential","inspirational","journey","journey-personal-history","journey","journey-to-yourself","learners","learning-by-doing","learning-lessons","learning-process","learning","motivational","path","path-of-life","potential-for-greatness","potential","right-path","science","science-of-mind","scientist","seeker-of-fate","seeking","student-potential","student-teacher-affair","success","teaching-science","wishes-dreams","wishes-for-new-year","wishes","work","work-hard"],"id":2832,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.","author":"George Tenet","tags":["responsibility","curiosity "],"id":2981,"author_id":"George+Tenet"},{"text":"A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.","author":"Eli Pariser","tags":["curiosity","dissonance","learning"],"id":3715,"author_id":"Eli+Pariser"},{"text":"There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.","author":"Ronald Tudu","tags":["curiosity","grades","learning","score","strategy"],"id":3791,"author_id":"Ronald+Tudu"},{"text":"Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular what surrounds us; a certain relentlessness to break up our familiarities and to regard otherwise the same things; a fervor to grasp what is happening and what passes; a casualness in regard to the traditional hierarchies of the important and the essential. I dream of a new age of curiosity. We have the technical means for it; the desire is there; the things to be known are infinite; the people who can employ themselves at this task exist. Why do we suffer? From too little: from the channels that are too narrow, skimpy, quasi-monopolistic, insufficient. There is no point in adopting a protectionist attitude, to prevent ‘bad’ information from invading and suffocating the ‘good.’ Rather, we must multiply the paths and the possibility of comings and goings.","author":"Michel Foucault","tags":["curiosity","foucault"],"id":5039,"author_id":"Michel+Foucault"},{"text":"I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if it’s in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn’t understand and what’s said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won’t understand it.","author":"Javier Marías","tags":["controlling","curiosity","learning","nosiness"],"id":5615,"author_id":"Javier+Mar%C3%ADas"},{"text":"To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["curiosity"],"id":5802,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.","author":"Caroline Kennedy","tags":["curiosity","style","fashion "],"id":5808,"author_id":"Caroline+Kennedy"},{"text":"In the real world, the tests are all open book.","author":"Jeff Jarvis","tags":["curiosity","education","reading"],"id":6885,"author_id":"Jeff+Jarvis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":869,"pages":87,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}