Quotes About Curiosity

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

wherever you sit, in whatever blend of familiar and strange, it always pays to stop and ask yourself a simple question that the bankers on the Riviera were not asking: If I was to arrive in this culture, as a total stranger, or as a Martian or child, what might I see?

She calls these reader moments the quibbles—when she gets stuck in the faulty notion that everything in a book must be grasped. Why should readers be spooked about not knowing all the details in a book about the Philippines yet surge forward with resolve in stories about France?

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do something you've never done before? There's only one way to find out.

When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead, and have fun with what happens.

Stop now and always wonder. Press forward and tap the wonder.

The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, perpetual curiosity, exploring new avenues, welcoming surprise and wandering, I have begun the next leg of my journey; I have brought the spirit of the traveler home.

Diving in IS testing the water.

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.

Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.

Some people never get farther than where they start from, never find out what else there is, or ask questions, or get answers.

I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others And penetrate ever further through the eternal field, That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

Tenendosi a braccetto, alcune ragazze formavano a volte delle catene tutte femminili di cinque o sei. Strane, mi dicevo, guardandole. Nell'attimo che le incrociavamo, scrutavano attraverso i cristalli coi loro occhi ridenti, nei quali la curiosità si mescolava a una specie di bizzarro orgoglio, di disprezzo appena simulato. Davvero strane. Belle e Libere.

Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")

A Å¡ta da ljudim, ako ne zagonetku?

A Å¡ta da ljubim, ako ne zagonetku?

Mie îmi trebuiau inimi iubitoare È™i, mai ales, creiere active È™i libere. Oameni ca mine, care nu fac o figur? prea str?lucit? la È™coal?, dar care citesc, gândesc, rumeg? îndelung È™i au curiozit??i ieÈ™ite din comun È™i vise n?zdr?vane. Am g?sit unul singur, dar nu era elev, era profesor.

En todos los grandes hombres de ciencia, existe el soplo de la fantasía, madre de las intuiciones geniales.

Qué era lo que yo quería aprender? ¿Qué quería hacer? No lo sabía. Ni programas ni guías: ninguna idea concreta. De acá o de allá, este u oeste, en profundidad o en altura. Solamente saber, saber todo. —He aquí la palabra de mi desastre: ¡todo!

Nelle scuole abbiamo […] l'immobilità dello spirito obbligato a ripetere invece che a cercare.

Allorquando uno di quei piccoli , o più debole, o più incauto, o più egoista degli altri, volle staccarsi dal gruppo per vaghezza dell'ignoto o per brama di meglio, o per curiosità di conoscere il mondo, il mondo da pesce vorace com'è, se lo ingoiò, e i suoi più prossimi con lui.

Poi gli parve finalmente di essere giunto a una possibile meta: dietro l'ennesimo gomito di un vicolo era apparsa una casa bassa e lunga, percorsa su tutta la parete che dava sulla strada da un portico su cui campeggiava un'insegna dipinta a lettere scarlatte che volevano rozzamente imitare tante lingue di fiamma: LA MALA BOLGIA.

Faith was a choice. So, it followed, was wonder.

He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.