Quotes About Curiosity

Gefährlich ... seit wann interessiert dich das?

Jacob hatte sich immer gefragt, ob es nur einen Spiegel gab. Offenbar war die Antwort Nein.

keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who." Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child

Humans asked them about everything, but they usually weren't half as good at finding the answers.

So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.

I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.

maybe fear is God's way of saying, Pay attention, this could be fun.

Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.

If we go beyond what we once thought was our perimeter, then all limits are open to question.

If you were a fanciful person, you might have said that it was almost as if that box was looking for Hiccup. But we are not fanciful people, and that would be ridiculous.

Americans can handle one person from anywhere. They had Desi Arnaz from Cuba. And Tin Tan from México. And Rita Moreno from Puerto Rico. But as soon as there are too many of us, they throw up their hands. No, no, no! We were only just curious. We are not actually interested in you people.

and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren't funny.

When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.

era greu sa-mi imaginez ca m-as fi putut simti vreodata ca o tipa "misto", dar ma simteam ca o persoana de care eu insami as fi fost intrigata in primii mei ani acolo.

Oh, how different my life would have been had I not grown up in the same house with my grandmother, how much narrower and blander! She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant and contradictory place, and it had made me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

I want to open myself up, I want to experience other dimensions, I don't want to be bound by the rules of this world. Does that make me a freak?

She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant and contradictory place, and it had made me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

This was the problem with me - I didn't know how to talk to people without asking them questions. Some people seemed to find me peculiar and some people were so happy to discuss themselves that they didn't even notice, but either way, it made conversation draining. While the other person's mouth moved, I'd try to think of the next thing to ask.

Joanna had the fisherman's pie. 'What's under the mashed potato?' Slider asked. Joanna chewed thoughtfully for a moment and then looked down. 'Something white,' she said at last. 'With little bits of something pink.' She chewed again. 'I am eating, aren't I?' she appealed for reassurance. 'It's so hard to tell without some sensory input, like taste or texture.

There is a sixth sense . . . that is the sense of wonder.

Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.

In the depths of him, he too didn't want to go. But he was a born American, and if anything was on show, he had to see it. That was Life .

Sabemos hacer cosas pero no sabemos vivir. Es curioso ese rasgo familiar.

Since that time the boy used to look at the man every time he came through, with the same curious criticism, glancing away before he met the smith's eye. It made Dawes furious. They hated each other in silence.