Quotes About Curiosity

I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.

Every time he slammed his body against the wire fence the jay started as if he were about to fly off, but he didn't. He just kept staring down into those deadly jaws, mesmerized by the spectacle there.

But when you live a life among desperate men and women, any door you open might have Pandora written all over the other side.

We still know so little about the nature of dreams that the observation comes to a stop once it has been made.

It is better to enjoy the good which God sends thee, than to be impertinently curious how it comes.

Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?

Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a tolerably large library.

The features of Rashleigh were such, as, having looked upon, we in vain wish to banish from our memory, to which they recur as objects of painful curiosity, although we dwell upon them with a feeling of dislike, and even of disgust.

Reading could be the BEST addiction one could have. The only proven side effect is imagination & an edge in knowledge.

In league with the fantastic. That's a thought to keep hold of.

If Albert Einstein, the last century's very poster boy for the cunning man and the wild-haired magician of science, knew one thing, then it was simply that there was always more to be known. He didn't pridefully condemn dreams of physics and incomplete theories. He pointed off into the future and named the unknown things as, in fact, spooky action at a distance.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about yet refuse to investigate.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you know nothing about

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." — ALBERT EINSTEIN

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Rumi observed, "Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little?

When you live from the perspective of being able to say, "I don't know for certain, but I'm willing to listen," you become a person whom others identify with.

have a mind that is open to everything but attached to nothing.

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little? A heart starts beating inside a mother's womb a few weeks after conception, and it's a total mystery to everyone on our planet. In comparison to what there is to know, we are only embryos. Keep this in mind whenever you encounter those who are absolutely certain that there's only one way to do something. Resist being a pessimist.

I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet – only science would put them on the same tree.

I tried to convince the kids at the bus stop to climb up with me, even a little ways, but all of them said they didn't want to get dirty. Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt? I couldn't believe it.