Quotes About Curiosity

The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Belangstelling is wel een van de beste eigenschappen van de mens, deze wonderlijke aardbewoner.

La pluralità dei dettagli dell'esistenza diventa un mistero nel momento in cui la curiosità ne allarga i confini naturali.

One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Just as she said this, the children heard a horse and cart coming up the road.

That's what I was doing the day you children found me in your grandfather's room." Mr.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

looked up. Benny was not reading any more. He was looking straight ahead. But he was not looking at anything. "What's the matter, Ben?" asked Mr. Alden.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question

What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?

Abituarsi a guardare la vita come una cosa d'altri, rubata per scherzo, da restituire domani. Convincersi ch'è uno sbaraglio per temerari, che la precauzione suprema è morire. La morte: un esilio? Un rimpatrio? Come s'affonda in un legno un chiodo, a piccoli colpi, la morte... Pena di doversi lasciare a metà, dopo aver fatto con se stessi così poca strada, curiosità di conoscere il séguito...

Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.

Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun.

Se gli compro una cometa il mio bambino chissà cosa combina.» E il mago: «Ma fatevi coraggio! I vostri bambini andranno sulle stelle, cominciate ad abituarli da piccoli.»

Mandándome en sueños a mi abuelo, quien me daba bofetones toda la noche y me despertaba con golpes. ¡Y pensar que mi profesión preferida es la de observador de plátanos! —¿Cómo se hace? —Se escoge un plátano, se pone debajo de una hamaca y se observa. Se hacen observaciones interesantísimas. A propósito, me llamo Segundo.

in ogni attività, in ogni lavoro, è salutare di tanto in tanto mettere un punto interrogativo ad affermazioni che abbiamo sempre dato per scontate.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.

The local natives were particularly curious to know why the English required such huge quantities of pepper and there was much scratching of heads until it was finally agreed that English houses were so cold that the walls were plastered with crushed pepper in order to produce heat.

La meilleure façon de commencer est de dire : Balthus est un peintre dont on ne sait rien. Et maintenant, regardons les peintures. (p. 91)