Quotes About Curiosity

It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.

Instead, allow yourself to become curious. Curiosity is actually a form of fearlessness, when you think about it. It takes courage to let go of your hopes and fears in order to truly take in the other person. Open up more and more space in your own mind and heart for your partner's answers. Your own judgments and responses, while vitally important, are not the point right now. Trust, really trust, that they will still be there when you need them. (They will.)

She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great number of books. Her world was constantly expanding until she could no longer fit herself into the culture that was most important to her.

Remember that life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.

So, Mr. Jeffreys," she inquired of the human bluebottle, "you went to the gym?

This must be what dying is like. She tried wiggling a bony finger to attract Rhiannon. She wanted to ask her: is this what it was like?

I didn't decide to learn sign language, any more than I ever decided to enjoy a poem; it simply held me spellbound.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Wow. This book must be really good, mustn't it?

I liked to read about five books at a time and leave them open to my place.

Galileo was one of the first scientists to use the scientific method. Instead of accepting old ideas, he carefully observed the world around him, and then tried to make a theory that would explain his observations.

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

Why would you know?" "I wouldn't," I said. "I don't know anything about you.

Do you want to come in?" I asked, surprised at myself. "No," he said. I realized that I wanted him to come inside. Which surprised me even more.

I pretended not to be too interested in the gun.

As always, I was pulled in by the small gesture. It was all that I knew about him, and it was perilous to me.

There's something I know but I don't know it yet. It's driving me nuts.

We're detectives . . . We can do anything we want.

I used to think, what other job in the world is as good as being a detective?

It was like being alive twice, seeing the world twice, and the new vision came through the eyes of a small, curious, unstoppable being who had never seen it before. We had our own little mindfulness coach, reminding us that when all else fails us in this life we can love our own toes, or the velvet coolness of a dog's ear, or his downy fur. People told us how we would fall in love with our baby, but not how through him we would fall in love with everything else again too.

Daniel Dennett, a consciousness theorist, famously said that scholars are a library's way of making another library.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.