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Quotes About Curiosity

Plan'in olusturulmasi gunlerimizi aliyordu. Buldugumuz en son bagintiyi birbirimize iletmek icin calismalarimiza ara veriyorduk. Elimize ne gecerse okuyorduk: ansiklopediler, gazeteler, resimli romanlar, yayinevi kataloglari.
~ Umberto Eco
because one who knows not how to seek will never find…
~ Umberto Eco
De ideale functie van een bibliotheek is om een beetje te lijken op de kraam van een bouquiniste, de ideale plek voor trouvailles.
~ Umberto Eco
That was when I saw the Pendulum.
~ Umberto Eco
Was that what Starfleet was, when it came down to it? One massive high-school science club? Why had no one ever mentioned this before?
~ Una McCormack
The little girl, all ears, giggled. "I like that," she said. "Forgiveness, not permission. I'll remember that.
~ Una McCormack
Her past life had become a sort of fairy tale, to which she listened gladly and asked questions. After the treatment had continued for two or three weeks she began to exclaim, "I believe I remember that!
~ Upton Sinclair
he had read in an encyclopedia article entitled "Obstetrics." From boyhood he had had the habit of looking up things in that dependable work; but
~ Upton Sinclair
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
~ Uta Hagen
Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area.
~ V.S. Naipaul
Whatever they say about going back to the beginning, they'll be interested in the car.
~ V.S. Naipaul
adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
~ V.S. Ramachandran
De omnibus dubitandum (Doubt everything)
~ Vaclav Smil
As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.
~ Val McDermid
junction at the top of the stairs. She gave a curious glance down General Tilney's corridor, but she
~ Val McDermid
Why are you only coming home just after three? Do you want a drink? I'm wide awake now.' He could be so like a small child, she thought. Out of nowhere, all eagerness and curiosity.
~ Val McDermid
strange young girl,' he said in a loud voice that I knew was meant
~ Velma Wallis
We have the answers, all the answers; it's the question we do not know.
~ Verne Harnish
Success belongs to those who have these two attributes: • An insatiable desire to learn • An unquenchable bias for action
~ Verne Harnish
All these great biz leaders know one thing — nothing interesting can come out of your brain that you don't put in first. Having a natural curiosity and thirst for learning separates the good from the great in our experience. Happy reading!
~ Verne Harnish
Dinah and I were raised to believe money taints ordinary people, obstructs virtue, and makes a fool out of you. So, the inheritance was like a tiger somebody'd left on the doorstep of my house, and I had to figure out something to do with it. Having never seen a tiger up close, I perceived it as strange, frightful, and yet it pricked my curiosity enough to warrant a peek at its big body. But what to do with it?
~ Vicki Covington
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
~ Victor Hugo
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
~ Victor Hugo
Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?
~ Victor Hugo