Quotes About Curiosity

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

He never went out without a book under his arm and he often came home with two.

Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.

You have knocked at every door? she asked. Yes. Have you knocked at that one there? No. Knock there.

There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are not concerned in them

As the place is worth seeing, nobody goes there.

No one is more avidly curious about other people's doings than those persons whom they do not concern.

To learn to read is to light a fire;

For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.

The gravedigger's work is charming when done by a child.

Il n'y a rien de tel pour épier les actions des gens que ceux qu'elles ne regardent pas.

Nessuno è meglio adatto a spiare le azioni d'una persona, di coloro cui non riguardano.

There exist beings who, for the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other payment for their curiosity than curiosity.

one of those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody.

If he had had Peru in his pocket he would certainly have given it to the dancer, but Gringoire had no Peru there, and, besides, America was not yet discovered.

That which is terror by night is curiosity by day.

Inside was a library unlike any Leni had ever seen. Row upon row of wooden desks, decorated with green banker's lamps, were positioned beneath an arched ceiling. Gothic chandeliers hung above the desks. And the books! She'd never seen so many. They whispered to her of unexplored worlds and unmet friends and she realized that she wasn't alone in this new world. Her friends were here, spine out, waiting for her as they always had.

After that, they got hot dogs at a frankfurter stand and walked down the wharf. At Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe they saw shrunken heads and Egyptian mummies and cheap souvenirs. (Meg didn't point out the eight-foot-long petrified whale penis that hung suspended from the ceiling; she could just imagine what Ali would tell her friends.)