Quotes About Curiosity

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

but seven of us went to where she was standing, looked

So,' said Ruby, 'tell me gain, what exactly happened out there?' 'Oh, come on Rube!' said her mother laughing. 'We've told you around four times!' But Ruby couldn't get enough of the story - she was kind of proud that her parents had survived such a dicey situation. There was of course another reason for wanting to hear it over and over; it was RULE 14: VERY OFTEN PEOPLE NEGLECT TO TELL THE MOST IMPORTANT DETAIL.

You can be completely sure what might happen next.

I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.

There's something strange about this big pink bunny...

You're saying the mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood. That maybe they're bound to be too big to understand, but that doesn't take anything away from them, and in fact just adds to their beauty.

The world was out there waiting to be explored—and not just waiting, but wanting to be explored. So why in heaven's name shouldn't I investigate every nook and cranny?

Who would want to be poked by some dumb girl with a stick?

SnowAngel: who's Bill Gates?

there's something strange about that giant pink rabbit …

Mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood.

Sometimes, in the movie theater or the supermarket, I look around at people who I suppose live their lives without a chemical crutch, and they amaze me.

Mama!" a little boy squealed. "Take me closer!

You never know what's ahead," Papa would say, his eyes brimming with excitement.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

Portuguese knowledge of the oceans and of the world beyond the Iberian peninsula.

But Mesquita found Andrés de San Martín, the esteemed astronomer-astrologer; Hernando Morales

sailed along its coast, and spotted a tribe that seemed friendly, at least from a distance. In good spirits

The Edge of the World

Magellan refused to consider this huge bay as anything more than that.

approximation to Paradise that Magellan was likely to encounter during his entire voyage around the world.

I have found here a new world richer and greater than that of Vasco da Gama," he wrote.

Magellan hoped that by going west, in the opposite direction, over water