Quotes About Curiosity

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.

I wish you had fucked her. Then you'd know. Then you'd know the sublime … Her asshole, for example. It's like a stern coquettish spoiled secretary working for Himmler—

I'm supposed to be guilty of all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, but when you get right down to it, I'm really only guilty of one: wondering. The road to Hell, you say, is paved with good intentions. Charming. But actually it's paved with intriguing questions. You want to know. Man do you want to know.

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

Lo maravilloso de un bebé es que es un intelectual puro. Aprende cualquier cosa con total imparcialidad, sin ningún prejuicio.

Así pues, lo único que debe hacer usted para enseñar cualquier cosa a su niño pequeño es organizarse de tal modo que le cause placer. Y eso no significa jugar. Los niños no quieren jugar, lo que quieren es aprender.

She only knew that there was something she did not know.

But what was it with kids? Why was it that kids always had to dig whatever the wound, even deeper? Like bats radaring in to suck blood.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

We learn most where we know the least.

Because adventure starts the moment I leave my door.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.

We learn where we know the least.

I soon learned there was a very Indian habit of asking personal questions. It

read Plato or Shakespeare or Dante as if we found their books in the street and had no idea who they were. I

laughter is a mark of wanderers

We learn most where we know the least. For

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Der Mensch muss bei dem Glauben verharren, dass das Unbegreifliche befreidlich sei; er würde sonst nicht forschen.

Du reste je déteste tout ce qui ne fait que m'instruire, sans augmenter mon activité ou l'animer directement.

oamenii ferici?i sunt aceia care tr?iesc asemenea copiilor, î?i duc p?pu?ile în bra?e, le îmbrac? ?i le dezbrac?, dau târcoale, cu mare respect, cutiei în care mama a încuiat zaharul, iar când, în sfâr?it, au c?p?tat buc??ica de zah?r, o m?nânc? cu poft? ?i strig?: "Mai d?-mi!"...Fericite fiin?e!