Quotes About Curiosity

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history, and no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

Like everyone else, scientists are wrong from time to time, and it is easy to see that they are wrong about the table of the elements. Because although this table contains a great many elements, from the element oxygen, which is found in the air, to the element aluminum, which is found in cans of soda, the table of the elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

But you can't read every story, and answer every question even if you'd like to

I like a story that could never happen to me. If I want real life I'll read a newspaper.

Sunny did not eat the wood, of course, but she chewed on it and pretended it was a carrot, or an apple, or a beef and cheese enchilada, all of which she loved.

I pushed the door open, slow as long division.

In front of the cave there was a sign saying it was for sale, and the orphans could not imagine who would want to buy such a phantasmagorical - the word 'phantasmagorical' here mean 'all the creepy, scary words you can think of putting together' - place.

It is always interesting to observe what people are wearing in the middle of the night, although there are more pleasant ways to make such observations without being accused of murder.

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

Telling an adult to go see something for themselves always works. They never take your word for it. They always, always, have to go see, and Hungry was no different.

Bluh bluh bluh," Klaus bluhed.

Her hair came first, a wild tangle as if several heads of hair were having a wrestling match, and the rest of her followed, frowning and tall. There are many mysteries I have never solved, and the hair of my chaperone is perhaps my most curious unsolved case.

I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

It is one of the strange truths of life that practically nobody likes to be stared at and that practically nobody can stop themselves from staring....

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

A young man who asks too much about clothing will find himself the subject of unflattering rumors.

You would do well to be less particular. With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.

THE REPTILE ROOM

It is true, of course, that you never know. A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

But I will take a page from the book of the Snow Scout leader, and skip ahead to the next interesting thing that happened, which was very, very late at night, when so many interesting parts of stories happen and so many people miss them because they are asleep in their beds, or hiding in the broom closet of a mustard factory, disguised as a dustpan to fool the night watchwoman. It

Chuni!" Sunny shrieked, which probably meant "Let's go to the kitchen and get it

How does anyone know anything about anything? I read it, of course!

Never say you're hungry until you learn what they're fixing.