Quotes About Curiosity

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true," Walt Disney said. "This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence.

It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

Phrases of neatness, cosiness, and comfort can never be an answer to the sphinx's riddle.

We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.

Young mudlarks searching the river quag for scrap had been known to step into some discoloured patch of mud and start speaking long-dead languages, or find locusts in their hair, or fade slowly to translucency and disappear.

In the streets of Un Lun Dun: a group of a girl, a half ghost, a talking book, a piece of rubbish, and two living words was unusual but not very.

It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.

Be a dilettante, a sciolist, a swindler … So long as you return me to the sky, Grimnebulin.

I took the goats downslope a bit and they screamed at each other and I screamed too to see what it was like.

Now then. Now then now then. What's all this, then?

Sometimes he opened books and found words that had defeated him the first time he had seen them, and that he had then written down and learned. It delighted him. He felt like a fox that had tracked them. That was how it was with thorough, and climber, and khepri. When he encountered them for the second time, they surrendered to him, and he read them without pause. In

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There'll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Curiosity = Wonder + Awe

Mystery is created not from an unexpected moment but from an unexpected journey. We know where we're headed—we want to solve the mystery—but we're not sure how we'll get there.

Curiosity, he says, happens when we feel a gap in our knowledge.