Quotes About Curiosity

Neal Shusterman

Why am I seeing a beach ball?

But like so many things, once we had possession of infinite knowledge, it suddenly seemed less important. Less urgent. Yes, we know everything, but I often wonder if anyone bothers to look at all that knowledge

Curiosity was a cat killer?

Yes, she said, I . . .seek and answer to the burning question: Is it A-flat or G-sharp? And one of the others said, Don't even get me started!

It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.

The child, in love with prints and maps, Holds the whole world in his vast appetite. How large the earth is under the lamplight! But in the eyes of memory, how the world is cramped!

Genius is childhood recovered at will.

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Do you know that high fever which invades us in our cold suffering, that aching for a land we do not know, that anguish of curiosity? There is a country which resembles you, where everything is beautiful, sumptuous, authentic, still, where fantasy has built and adorned a western China, where life is sweet to breathe, where happiness is wed to silence. That is where to live, that is where to die! - Invitation to a Voyage

Celui qui regarde du dehors à travers une fenêtre ouverte, ne voit jamais autant de choses que celui qui regarde une fenêtre fermée.

Para el niño, amante de mapas y grabados, el universo es igual a su inmenso apetito. ¡Ah, qué grande es el mundo a la luz de las lámparas!, ¡qué pequeño es el mundo a los ojos del recuerdo!

Oh Muerte, capitana, ya es tiempo, el ancla alcemos! Nos hastía esta tierra, ¡oh Muerte!, ¡hay que zarpar! Si son de tinta negros cielo y mar cual los vemos, nuestros pechos, que ahondaste, sólo saben brillar. ¡Vierte en nosotros el veneno que conforta! Mientras arda este fuego que en el cerebro llevo, sondeemos el abismo, Cielo, Infierno: ¿qué importa? ¡Al fondo de lo Ignoto para encontrar lo nuevo!

Je questionnai l'un de ces hommes, et je lui demandai où ils allaient ainsi. Il me répondit qu'il n'en savait rien, ni lui, ni les autres ; mais qu'évidemment ils allaient quelque part, puisqu'ils étaient poussés par un invincible besoin de marcher.

Podemos apostar con total confianza que, en pocos años, los dibujos del señor G. se convertirán en archivos preciosos de la vida civilizada. Los curiosos buscarán sus obras tanto como las de los Debucourt, los Moreau, los Saint-Aubin, los Carle Vernet, los Lami, los Devéria, los Gavarni, y las de todos los artistas exquisitos que, pese a haber pintado solo lo familiar y lo bonito, a su manera no dejan de ser historiadores serios.

La génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, that guy's nuts. out on the street I walked north feeling curiously honored.

I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?

We've died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.