Quotes About Curiosity

Scorpios are constantly searching for answers...

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

Never Explain Anything

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions, which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Women are marvellous at plodding through the centuries. They are exact, accurate and tireless. If you ever wish to discover some minute fact, buried away at the bottom of a bin of forgotten parchments, find a girl with horn-rimmed spectacles and straight hair and ask her to do it for you.

Those who today explore the curious ramifications of the Sultan's Palace at Istanbul may fancy, not without reason, that they see the only reflection left on earth of the once crowded Roman Palatine.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

Power-seeking people are tuned in to the fact that questions steer the course of conversations and that the ones doing the asking are therefore in the driver's seat.

It's the doors that make a prison, he says, not the walls. The doors you don't even try to open.

The important and difficult job is never to find the right answers. It is to find the right question. - Peter Drucker

approach these questions with a "beginner's mind" - constantly seeing the world with fresh eyes

Questions need places to flourish

What if we brainstormed for Questions?

Ask yourself why the question you chose seemed important. Then ask why the reason you just gave is important. and so on.

The professor, a wise and kind Jesuit, said, "An open mind is an attitude. It means you don't think you already know everything.

You weren't there.

It was hard to comprehend how profoundly the world needed to scratch the Arctic itch.

A few days later, Dr. Ambler told De Long of a curious dream he'd had about Edison's lamps. In the dream, Sir John Franklin, the long-lost British explorer, had come aboard the Jeanette for a tour. Dr. Ambler led Franklin all over the ship and told him excitedly about Edison's electric lights, an invention that, of course, wasn't even dreamed about in Franklin's day. But Franklin bluntly interrupted him. "Your electric machine," he said, "is not worth a damn.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

He caught Jankyn staring at Efrica Callan who was laughing at something Bridget said. "She is only sixteen years of age, Cousin." "I ken it. I was just wondering if she purrs." He exchanged a brief grin with Cathal before wandering off into the crowd. Cathal

The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body may as well accompany it,

Wie schön das Leben ist, erfährt man nur, wenn man sich nicht vor allem verschließt, was einem fremd erscheint.