Quotes About Curiosity

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others.

We were meat to be bought and sold. Speaking Arabic made me a curious and unusual product. I didn't want to be special. I didn't want them to be curious about me.

As he made his way, he ploughed his bare feet through the mud as a child, head bowed as a child, interested as a child neither in where he was going nor in what might happen next but only in the furrow his foot opened that vanished a moment later.

For beneath that delicate black powder something highly unusual was happening: the book's marbled cover was giving off a faint, but increasingly bright purple glow.

Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.

mystery about life—the mystery which promises that even with careful notice, much happens that we do not understand.

there is mystery everywhere, even in a vulgar, urine-scented, suburban depot such as this. You have only to let yourself in for it. You can never know what's coming next. Always there is the chance it will be—miraculous to say—something you want.

If we do not expect the unexpected we will not discover it, since it is not to be searched out and is difficult to apprehend. What

Beware of finding what you're looking for. [ A favorite aphorism he often used .]

Everyone's afraid of what they don't understand, Ringil said quietly.

Half the things we dig up, we have no idea what they are, and we still sell them as fucking coffee-table trinkets. Right now, someone back on Latimer has probably got the encoded secret of a faster-than-light drive mounted on their fucking living room wall." She paused. "And it's probably upside down.

À adorer l'incertitude.

There was finely toned muscle in her legs, and a substantial biceps stood out when she lifted her arms. Exuberant breasts strained the fabric of the leotard. I wondered if the body was hers.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. PABLO PICASSO

It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO

Mystery is at the heart of creativity.

Every child is born an artist. The trick is remaining one as an adult.

terra incognita

Remember, your artist is a child. Find and protect that child. Learning to let yourself create is like learning to walk.

concéntrate más en la búsqueda del misterio que en los conocimientos que te faltan.

A mystery can be very simple: if I drive this road, not my usual road, what will I see? Changing a known route throws us into the now. We become refocused on the visible, visual world. Sight leads to insight.

tu artista es un niño y necesita alimentarse.

When I wasn't at school, I was experimenting at home, and became a bit of a Mad Scientist. I did hours of research on mayonnaise, for instance, and though no one else seemed to care about it, I thought it was utterly fascinating....By the end of my research, I believe, I had written more on the subject of mayonnaise than anyone in history.

Tossing the chalk thoughtfully for a moment, I decided what to do. I wrote 'The cat sat on the mat' once in copperplate English, then translated into Latin, then French and finally, for good measure, in Italian.