Quotes About Curiosity

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

there are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.

When I am alone in the forest at night-time and jump from one tree to another, I often think that life is so strange.

It is so much nicer to ask, when someone speaks of Barbados, Banska Bystrica or Fiji: 'Oh those little islands.... Are they British?' (They usually are.)

Do chickens have lips?

What I like more than anything is to visit other islands...

Bush himself came into office with no curiosity about the world, only a suspicion that his predecessor had entangled America in far too many obscure places of no importance to national interests. Wolfowitz

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

Some doors are best left closed.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one

Mother, I want to see him fly!

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.

Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we've never seen, expand our horizons and our way of looking at the world. Limiting your reading to a single genre defeats that. It limits us, makes us smaller. It seemed to me, then as now, that there were good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered.

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, for this wide world has no greater wonder.

The Father made men curious, some say to test our faith. It is my own abiding sin that whenever I come upon a door I must needs see what lies upon the farther side, but certain doors are best left unopened.

Man's curiosity drives him to seek the answer to every question. But it's the unanswered questions that are the most exciting.

Never ask a baker what went into a pie. Just eat.

Cersei wondered what it would feel like to kiss another woman. Not lightly on the cheek, as was common courtesy amongst ladies of high birth, but full upon the lips. Taena's lips were very full. She wondered what it would feel like to suckle on those breasts, to lay the Myrish woman on her back and push her legs apart and use her as a man would use her.

He wondered how many lives had been snuffed out by that fart.

Who can presume to know the heart of a dragon?