Quotes About Curiosity

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

A burnt child loves the fire.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

So with curious eyes and sick surmise We watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of us Would end the self-same way, For none can tell to what red Hell His sightless soul may stray.

I'm too old to know everything

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

It's 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. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.

No procuro saber las respuestas, procuro comprender las preguntas.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions

The Master said, "I do not open the way for students who are not driven with eagerness; I do not supply a vocabulary for students who are not trying desperately to find the language for their ideas. If on showing students one corner they do not come back to me with the other three, I will not repeat myself.

Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?

I picked out F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair and a couple of mysteries, which always have simple, solvable problems like How did the murderer get into the locked room? instead of hard ones like What causes trends? and What did I do to deserve Flip? and then went over to the eight hundreds.

I sat there watching him examine the fish and marvelling at what we'd caught. A genuine eccentric Oxford don. They're an extinct species, too...

Yeah, like this one carny up in Fargo. It had a big sign saying 'See the Siamese twins,' and everybody pays a buck, thinking they're gonna see two people hooked together. And when they get there it's a cage with two Siamese kittens in it. Like that.

Nimeni nu poate s? ias? din propria sa existen??, aÈ™a cum nici ursul nu poate s? ias? din cuÈ™ca lui de la menajerie. Tot ceea ce i se întâmpl? cuiva din partea altcuiva pare straniu pentru noi. Când noi ar?t?m interes preocup?rilor altora, acord?m, de fapt, interes propriilor noastre preocup?ri.

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

He sat by a gray window in the gray light in an abandoned house in the late afternoon and read old newspapers while the boy slept. The curious news. The quaint concerns.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.