Quotes About Curiosity

You get used to being naked, that's the first thing that Ivan discovered. Crashing through thick brush with branches snagging at your bare skin, you stop worrying about who's looking and and spend your time trying to keep yourself from being flayed alive. He got shy again when they entered the village, but once he decided simply to let the gawkers gawk, he found himself much more interested in what he was seeing than what they were.

When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.

What was that education? Question everything, but keep your word. Doubt everything, but never give others a reason to doubt you.

If you try to look up my skirt, I'll poke needles in your eyes right through your eyelids while you're asleep.' 'I'm looking for help, you give me nightmares, thank you so much.' She was on the top step now, reaching up for a bin marked DRY BEANS. Rigg looked up her skirt, mostly because she told him not to, and saw nothing at all of interest. He could never understand why Nox and other women, too, were always so sure men wanted to see whatever it is they concealed under their clothes.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what just living might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt.

I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.

Ender laughed and shook his head. 'You're actually having fun, Val' 'I can't think why I shouldn't.

Who but the adolescent is free to have the adventures that most of us are looking for when we turn to storytellers to satisfy our hunger?

I firmly believe that a good storyteller's education never ends, because to tell stories perfectly you have to know everything about everything. Naturally, none of us actually achieve such complete knowledge - but we should live as if we were trying to do so. You can't afford to close off any area of inquiry.

A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing. A pure soul must expose himself to new things every day.

I want to understand everything, said Miro. I want to know everything and put it all together to see what it means. Excellent project, she said. It will look very good on your résumé.

What I have lived by is this: Whatever I need to know, and don't, I must learn. And if learning it fights against my natural inclinations, then it's all the more important that I learn it anyway.

Don't ever ask questions that can only be answered one way, no matter what the truthful answer might be.

And because it was possible, there was a part of him that wanted to play it out, see where this path led. I

Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that absolutely are not like the observable world around them.

Peter, pretending to take a crushed pea out of his nose

Be careful when you go searching for lost objects in people's houses. Some of them get prickly about finding burglars there, and they can afford the very best weapons, whether legal or illegal. Since they hardly ever get to kill people in the normal course of their day, they will naturally have an extra impulsion to fire at you, just to satisfy their curiosity about how it would feel to fire the weapon in anger, so to speak.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.