Quotes About Curiosity

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.

I wanted to know the truth, and yet I was afraid of what I might learn.

what's wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?" "If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord

I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so mabye its something that helps you have good luk.

For one moment I had a cold feeling he was watching. Over the arm of the couch, I caught a glimpse of his face staring back at me through the dark beyond the window - where just a few minutes earlier I had been crouching. A switch of perception, and I was out on the fire escape again, watching a man and a woman inside, making love on the couch. ... I thought to myself, go ahead, you poor bastard - watch. I don't give a damn anymore.

It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life.

My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because it takes me only a second to absorb the printed page, and curious students invariably gather around me as I flip through my books.

Cuando le dije que no sabia pensar me dijo intentalo. Mientras tenia las bendas en los ojos intente pensar. No paso nada. No se en que pensar. Alomejor si se lo pregunto me dira como tengo que pensar aora que tengo que volberme listo. Que piensan las personas que son listas. Seguro que cosas marabillosas. Me gustaria saber cosas marabillosas ya.

ÖÄŸrenmek tuhaf bir olay: Ne kadar derinlere gidersem, var olduÄŸunu bile bilmediÄŸim ÅŸeylerle kar??la??yorum. K?sa bir süre önce, her ÅŸeyi - dünyadaki tüm bilgileri - öÄŸrenebilirim gibi aptalca bir hisse kap?lm??t?m. Åžimdi ise, sadece onlar?n var olduÄŸunu bilebilmeyi ve bir nebzesini anlayabilmeyi ümit ediyorum.

Estranho sobre aprender; quanto mais longe eu vou, mais vejo o que nunca soube que sequer existia. Algum tempo atrás, totalmente imaginei que poderia aprender tudo - todo conhecimento existente. Agora espero apenas ser capaz de saber de sua existência e entender um mínimo disso.

spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

Dr Strauss said dont be so superstishus Charlie. This is sience. I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so mabye its something that helps you have good luk.

I spend most of my free time at the library now, reading and soaking up what I can from books. I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now—Dostoevski, Flaubert, Dickens, Hemingway, Faulkner—everything I can get my hands on—feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now - ... - everything I can get my hands on - feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

Has it ever occurred to you to wonder if the history we teach our children is a lie?

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot — a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there until someone draws your attention to it.

You wouldn't know from experience that small children are the most powerful learning engines in the known universe.

We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting.

Where are you looking at it from?" "Oh. From above. From outer space." "What are you doing up there?" "I don't know." "Why aren't you down on the surface?

And this thought is a question: Why? "Why, why, why, why, why, why?" the tiger asks itself hour after hour, day after day, year after year, as it treads its endless path behind the bars of its cage. It cannot analyze the question or elaborate on it. If you were somehow able to ask the creature, "Why what?" it would be unable to answer you.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot - a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there unit someone draws your attention to it.

Children just need the time, the space, and the permission to be kids.