Quotes About Curiosity

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

Life is a conundrum of esoterica.

This story is about the Baudelaires. And they are the sort of people who know that there's always something. Something to invent, something to read, something to bite, and something to do, to make a sanctuary, no matter how small. And for this reason, I am happy to say, the Baudelaires were very fortunate indeed.

There are some things we might not know, but that doesn't mean we should give up. We can find out what we need to know. We can find out everything

It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.

Are you who I think you are?

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

I guess we'll be traveling in uncharted waters." "That'll be fun," Phil said.

no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious.

It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.

Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity,' Sunny said, which was something she had said only once before. It meant something along the lines of 'I must admit I don't have the faintest idea of what is going on,' and the first time the youngest Baudelaire had said it, she had just been brought home from the hospital where she was born, and was looking at her siblings as they leaned over her crib to greet her.

Uncle Monty smiled at the orphans. 'That's quite all right,' he said. 'Questions show an inquisitive mind.

It is difficult for me to exaggerate how much I love a library.

I will love you as a cufflink loves to drop from its shirt and explore the party for itself.

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down