Quotes About Curiosity

A friend of a friend . . ." Have you ever noticed that our friends' friends have much more interesting lives than our friends themselves?

the Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it is preceded by the Huh? experience.

The simple act of committing to an answer makes the students more engaged and more curious about the outcome.

the value of asking more questions and listening to the answers.

The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.

Just who are the cheese monkeys? And what do they want?

Curiosity is the secret map to accessing and mining your customer's imagination.

Your being in the middle of your imagination turned on is not like a boardroom; it's like a candy shop.

She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them.

Did you ever think how monotonous your life would be if you could see all that was coming to you?

But I was like a bird caught in a snare. Only, the wires of this snare were made of curiosity and a disobedient heart.

Wait!' I cried, asking him the question that had bothered me for a long time. 'Did you ever love Ahalya? Were you sorry that you'd ruined her life?' Indra disappeared without answering, which didn't surprise me. The gods are slippery beings.

Early in my life, I learned to eavesdrop. I was driven to this ignoble practice because people seldom told me anything worth knowing.

Child, the things you don't know would fill the milky ocean where Lord Vishnu sleeps - and spill over its edges.

Haven't you seen how many of them come to the palace each week, just to see us wave to them from the public balcony?

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.

He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door at the far end and plunged through. . . . and in the Library of All the Same Book he actually stopped to examine a few of the volumes, all titled Various , that lined the shelves.

He liked to think that he tolerated more strangeness than most people, because he knew from experience that life was generally much stranger than most folks could imagine.

Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity. ("Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume")

There is no such thing as a stupid question. Just stupid people who ask questions.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.

With this girl – girl three in the queue – her story had made her so sad that she did not know the name of the place where she was at and she did not want to know. The girl was not even curious.