Quotes About Curiosity

one naked girl with a mud up to her knees could not seem to take her eyes off Tyrion. She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face and stuck his tongue out and the girl began to cry

A fish on a leash, he said, chortling. There's a sight I never saw before.

A reader lives a thousand lives.

I accept what I am, but I did not choose it. I experience human life in the only way I can, vicariously. I am a voracious consumer of books, tapes, holoplays, fictions and drama and histories of all sorts. I have experimented with dreamdust.

el maestre amaba los libros tanto como Samwell Tarly. Comprendía cómo se podía sumergir uno en ellos, como si cada página fuera un agujero abierto que daba a otro mundo.

What was he doing that they had to kill him?" "Asking questions,

we have asked, Where did Aerea take Balerion? We should have been asking, Where did Balerion take Aerea?

in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight.

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

The sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler. Do you knows what that means? No. Is it a riddle?

one more book, he had told himself, then i'll stop. one more folio, just one more. one more page then i'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. "I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about", he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it. Ladies and Gentlemen, SAMWELL TARLY IS ONE OF US!

Sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler.

An old woman selling piglets from a basket stopped to stare at him, a knight with a half-familiar face went to one knee, and two men-at-arms pissing in a ditch turned and sprayed each other.

If I'm not learning, check my pulse!

We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humour excites in those who lack it.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.

A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.