Quotes About Curiosity

y del placer de los bellos conocimientos que me proponía adquirir; pues para mi era como si ya los poseyese, o mejor dicho, era más todavía, porque el gusto de aprender entraba por mucho en mi felicidad. Es

lo misterioso me inquieta siempre, es harto contrario a mi carácter, abierto hasta la imprudencia.

Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.

she loved exploring every nook and cranny

Sure, he said. He started moving the bits around. Lets see. This looks like it must say . . . and so then this would go here . . . and this . . . He paused and looked up at her. Haven't we done this before?

But that was what made things so exciting--nothing was ever how you expected it to be.

She loved to run. She could run forever. And she loved exploring every nook and cranny of the city, which was what a messenger got to do.

What are those?

She decided to keep this letter because of the strange way it was written.

What must the ancient world have been like, she wondered, with all these strange things moving around in it? Was it wonderful or terrible?

She heard a scrape, and then a rustling sound.

Then there might be dead people.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

aficionados of the weather. We'd follow a storm

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, now what?

The Intellectual is someone who meddles in what does not concern him.

If someone read every book that's ever been written all he could when he was done is he'd read a lot of books.

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

Freedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.