Quotes About Curiosity

Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alec Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alec.

You see," he went on, "it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where—but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

We're not interested in making sense; it's not our job.

What a strange thing to have happen," he thought (just as you must be thinking right now). "This game is much more serious than I thought, for here I am riding on a road I've never seen, going to a place I've never heard of, and all because of a tollbooth which came from nowhere. I'm certainly glad that it's a nice day for a trip," he concluded hopefully, for, at the moment, this was the one thing he definitely knew.

I)t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

In this box are all the words I know,' he said. 'Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made from these words. With them, there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.

For instance, have you ever heard a square-wheeled steam roller ride over a street full of hard-boiled eggs he asked, and as he did, all that could be heard were loud crunching sounds.

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.

T)he most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

But Elsie thought she could find it. She had heard that policemen, when politely addressed, or thumbscrewed by an investigation committee, will give up information and addresses.

She thrusts hurriedly into your hand an extremely hot buttered roll, flashes out a tiny pair of scissors, snips off the second button of your overcoat, meaningly ejaculates the one word, parallelogram! and swiftly flies down a cross street, looking back fearfully over her shoulder. That

Su curiosidad no es la del hombre de ciencia, sino la del hombre culto que aspira a integrar en una visión coherente todas las particularidades del conocimiento. Presentía oculto engarce entre todas las verdades.

don't you have this sense sometimes that our life is essentially just the tip of the iceberg, and if you stop clinging to your puny bit of ice in fear or out of habit and just dive into the water, you will discover this luminous mass going down, deep down, and meet creatures you can't even imagine, and have thoughts and feelings no one has ever had before . . .

must of really been worth hearing about if it was too awful to mention.

A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.

Everybody looks at their poop.

A child in an environment where they feel loved and safe will choose to leave their comfort zone. Safe and familiar is boring; a safe and stable child is a curious child - they want to explore new things. A child who feel unsafe, however, won't want this. It's an essential rule of healthy development: A sense of safety and stability provides a foundation for healthy growth.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

And before long, the music, the views rushing past the window, my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one, and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions, it was good for us to ask them anyway.

Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.

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