Quotes About Curiosity

I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up?

I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.

A lot of people in my generation have dared to ask questions like, 'Who is James Dean?' And I can't imagine asking a question like that, just because it's been ingrained in me since I was so young.

I know that my great-grandfather - George Rich - was born in Cape Town in 1866 and it set my journey off to go to Cape Town to discover and find out more.

I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.

I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.

Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most, that keep me up at night, and that, when I finally fall asleep, insinuate themselves into my dreams.

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our DNA and psyches.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, 'How can this thing be happening; isn't it strange?'

There was a boy in my building who was my best friend when I was growing up. There was also a mysterious person on my corner who we called the Laughing Man.

There'll always be a part of me that wants to remain mysterious.