Quotes About Curiosity

The dogs would fan out ahead of us, cocking their legs, snuffling in the dark holes that honeycombed the great, ancient olive trees, and dashing off in noisy and futile pursuit of the swallows

rolled their eyes, panted and gasped, and tried by every means possible to show us that they were at death's door from starvation. Unusually, Roger did not join in. Instead he was sitting out in the sunshine in front of a patch of brambles watching something with great intentness. I went over to see what was intriguing him to such an extent that he was ignoring my sandwich crusts. At

the incessant shimmering cries of the cicadas. If the curious, blurring heat haze produced a sound, it would be exactly the strange, chiming cries of these insects.

Roger and I would squat in the heavily scented shade of the myrtle bushes and watch the array of creatures that passed us; at certain times of the day the branches were as busy as the main street of a town.

Olvidándome de mi inminente peligro de ser educado, salí con Roger a cazar luciérnagas por entre las abundantes zarzas

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

I believe that all children should be surrounded by books and animals.

Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience.

There are many technical workers who enjoy wandering so much that, like Alice in Wonderland, they don't much care where they go, so long as they get somewhere.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the cowpats into her beloved flower beds.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

I take him to McDonald's just to watch him eat and see the numbers change.

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?