Quotes About Curiosity

The girl wondered if her parents had been right to protect her from everything, if they had been right not to explain why so many things had changed for them since the start of the war... Nobody would tell her. Nobody would explain. She hated being treated like a baby. She hated the voices being lowered when she entered the room. If they had told her, if they had told her everything they knew, wouldn't that have made today easier?

Well, somebody in your situation needs to look at life like a newborn baby. Pretend like you have never been in the world before and you're waiting for it to show you what's what. Keep your head in the right now.

Women have that way of asking you more than what they want to know.

When you are young you believe the world is all yours, glorious and exhilarating and fascinating and full of promise and trumpets and drums and marches and new worlds," said Charles. "We don't ask ourselves what we are living for then. We know. But we forget, later, or it all seems a foolish dream.

El hombre siempre tuvo una mente torcida y se pregunta mil porqués, dándose mil respuestas.

La superstición nace de la incultura. Sin embargo, muchísimas cosas serán siempre un misterio para el hombre.

What the hell is a Hufflepuff?

A wise man never regrets the questions he asks. Only the ones he didn't ask.

We human beings may not be the answer to the question why, but I will keep looking for the answer to how. This search is my purpose; not because you chose it for me, Lord, but because I chose it for myself. Amen.

Well if you already know how the story goes, why do you need me to read it to you' 'Cause I wanna hear it!

Carl had been caught by surprise: he could recognize a face that smiled regularly, or a face that frowned regularly, even if it were unlined. He was curious as to how her face had developed such a close familiarity with so many expressions, and yet normally revealed nothing.

No one knew why the aliens wouldn't talk to us in person; fear of cooties, maybe.

Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

There were no other conspicuous orifices; perhaps their mouth was their anus too. Those sorts of questions would have to wait.

Marco and Polo take a reading class with Jax and a few others, and they seem to enjoy it well enough. None of the digients was raised on bedtime stories, so text doesn't fascinate them the way it does human children, but their general curiosity—along with the praise of their owners—motivates them to explore the uses that text can be put to.

Penetrating computer security is really quite dull; I can see how it might attract those who can't resist a challenge to their cleverness, but it's not intellectually aesthetic at all. It's no different than tugging on the doors of a locked house until you find an improperly installed lock. A useful activity, but hardly interesting.

They watch as Zaff sorts through the leaf litter, extracts a leaf decayed to near transparency, and holds it up to his face to look through it, a mask of vegetable lace.

When I watch the best in the world, I want to be like them. We all have a fascination, all of us, with Spain.

I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.