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“Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.”

Children Important Self Facts School Three Asks Subjects Ignorance Curiosity Protection Grades Unfortunate Toddler Self Protection

Book:The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.”

Enough Dark Knowing Ignorance Curiosity Not Knowing

Author:Alain de Botton

“A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.”

Knows Feels Desire Ignorance Higher Curiosity Ignorant Pursue Burning Vow Solemn

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.”

“Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.”

Children Born Ignorance Ought Creatures Instruments Curiosity Busy Useless Dull Remove Appetite Be Encouraged

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)

“My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.”

Knows Long Together Ignorance Offers Curiosity Hungry Curious Combination

Author:Alan Alda

“The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.”

People Trying Heart Helping Body Ignorance Overcoming Curiosity Limitation Contradiction Originality Heartbeat Deep Within

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.”

Years Self Matter Order Ignorance Dignity Remains Curiosity Impression Fifteen Fifteen Years Uninterested Fifteen Years Old

Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”

Ignorance Cat Curiosity Framed

Author:C. J. Cherryh

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

Ifs Ignorance Kings Cat Curiosity Bliss Knowledge Is Power Ignorance Is Bliss

Author:Kim Harrison

“The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea.”

Men Ideas Religion Force Parent Saws Ignorance Curiosity Manifestation Fancy Conception Superstitions Primitive Sinister Ignorance And Fear Primitive Man

Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

“The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.”

Men Science Values Consciousness Ignorance Research Conscious Curiosity Valuable Active Ignorant Attributes

Author:Willis R. Whitney

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.”