Quotes About Curiosity

Reading is the king of subjects. Math and science, writing and social studies -- they all depend on it. It's the most important thing children learn in school.

When I was six years old, I learned to read from a map of Disneyland.... When learning to read, kids' first words are typically ones like cat and bat. Mine were Jungle Cruise, Fantasyland, and Autopia.

Every child knows ho to do a drumroll. It's instinctive, just like when children pick staples out of the rug and bring them to the teacher.

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph

Part of the storytelling ability is simply the anticipation of boredom.

You have courage, minstrel," said Piros. Alaric shook his head. "Less than you think, good Piros. But I have considerable curiosity, and that sometimes masquerades as courage.

Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

Most people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf.

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

It's kind of spooky sometimes,' a Canadian lawyer said to me one day. 'There you are, in the Kim Do Hotel, it's ninety-three degrees outside, and it's April eighth, and you're listening to a Vietnamese cover version of Jingle Bells.

What if?" points in both directions.

We now have access, increasingly, to more and more cultures across the globe, and the result is that restlesness has gone global, and hopdfulness, and the sense of an answer being found somewhere else.

Going nowhere was the grand adventure that made sense of everywhere else.

Aveva vent'anni e aveva bisogno di storie.

Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and opening a book masks the countergesture that occurs at the same time: the involuntary act of not picking up and not opening all the other books in the universe.

Parece necessário interrogar-se sobre essa ausência de interrogação.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboards if they will let me.

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.