Quotes About Curiosity

I've never been to a race car race before.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

The children hid themselves, with receptive ears, round corners.

De leerling, die de meester vragen stelt om wijzer te worden, moet niet worden bestraft, als hij alles wil onderzoeken.

we wouldn't offer our child just one kind of book if we wanted him to become an avid reader: we can learn how to do the same with food.

The unusual, especially in sexual anomalies, is what the public wants to read with breakfast coffee.

Once you have that feeling of that great mystery, any piece of information feels like a treasure trove. Whether it's a name or a place where somebody once was, it's a form of a connection that you thought you were never going to have.

There are many wonders in this world that will remain quite beyond your reach unless, in fact, you reach for them.

Jean asked her sister, "Am I?" "Are you?" she asked back.

Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.

A work of art doesn't need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people's lives.

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

when they hear hooves they look for zebras instead of horses

It was that he seemed...content to live in a wholly unexplored world.

There's five million people a year standing in the spot where we are now simply because this is the most famous painting in the world and therefore you just have to go and see it. Doesn't matter if you're more naturally drawn to landscapes, battle scenes, religious paintings, whatever: you have to go see the Mona Lisa, so it remains the most famous and popular painting in the world by virtue of being the most famous and popular painting in the world.

Christopher Columbus

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged, a light shown in his eyes and he became almost passionate, which is why his wife kept a stack of local history books on her bedside table.

May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.

Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?

What is it with you and the Wizard of Oz references? Zombies and werewolves and vamps, oh my. Zombies and werewolves and...

Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

That is a pity; they must have known about whole worlds that we cannot touch.