Quotes About Curiosity

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

Man will not live without answers to his questions.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.

Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?

Why do they believe that?" "Because we are hackers," Csongor said, "and they have seen movies.

In the center of that open space, a bony woman in a threadbare garment was hunched over a dead plant. Sword of Divine Fire's reaction was succinct: Fuck! The woman cringed as if he'd hit her with a bullwhip. Then: What has happened to our potato?

To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

If it weren't for the obvious drawbacks, I would recommend that everyone go crazy at least once in their lifetime," El said. "It's the most fascinating thing I've ever done. Going about it mindfully requires diligent effort. A

but the great thing about traveling with Pluto was that he only cared about you to the extent that you were interesting to him now. In that way he kept you on your toes. No aspect of the relationship could be counterfeited when it was being minted anew from moment to moment.

there was something willfully idiotic in going to an unknown country, ignoring its people, their languages, art, its beasts and butterflies, flowers, herbs, trees, ruins, et cetera, and reducing it all to a few lumps of heavy matter un the center of a dish.

Hmmm.... supposing is a dangerous practice

Why would that cause him to pack up his bolt, chord, and sphere, and hurry to Ecba, of all places?

Arsibalt was horrified. "But how can you not be fascinated by—" "I am fascinated," I insisted. "That's the problem. I am suffering from fascination burnout. Of all the things that are fascinating, I have to choose just one or two.

It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for.