Quotes About Curiosity

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

People want to see something they're not sure they should be seeing.

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

I remember looking at the moon as an 8-year-old and marveling that there were two astronauts in a lander on the surface, getting ready to go out and actually walk. That settled it for me: I knew I was going to at least try to become an astronaut. I wanted to be like those guys.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

There are very few things that surprise me.

I identify myself as a explorer, do new things, surprise myself.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.