Quotes About Curiosity

Who knows what any of those people or fish would do in our shoes?" Violet said. "It's impossible to know.

As I'm sure you know, whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware... I recently looked in the refrigerator of one of my enemies and learned she was a vegetarian, or at least pretending to be one, or had a vegetarian visiting her for a few days.

I saw a woman wearing suspicious lettuce!

Gregor was involved with something called Volatile Fungus Deportation.

There's a library," I said, "and a fine journalist, and several interesting people. That's more than most places have.

It is curious to look at one's family and try to imagine how they look to strangers.

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do, and the only thing I could think of was finding out what was going on in this town.

The Hemlock Tearoom and Stationery

it is almost as if enormous philosophical questions are not designed to be answered at all, but just to make you think

It was a familiar feeling, to be hurrying someplace without really knowing what is going on. When I was a child, this happened all the time, because when you are a child, nothing is your business, and you are constantly being yanked one place or another with no satisfying explanation provided by the adults doing the yanking, and so you soon get used to being in a constant state of bewilderment.

There were books on all sorts of topics, from exciting things of vital importance to things that nobody had a reason to care about, but in a library the topics keep taking turns being important or interesting. Each patron in a library is looking for something different, and so the book you hardly notice is the book someone else is breathless to find, and the book that always makes you smile is busy making someone else sick.

There were no books in the room as far as I could see. I should have known better.

A library is like an island on a vast sea of ignorance.

one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy

LEARNING IS FUN!

Questions show an inquisitive mind.

is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with

Violet and Klaus looked down at the

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

Don't explain,' I said. 'Leave me something to be mystified about.

but for Daphne, and her neighbours' travels, I would still not know that Finland had a cuisine

The only thing a man has to know about women is that he'll never know anything about them.