Quotes About Curiosity

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?' " -Rovender Kitt

Never abandon imagination

The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?

Your answers lie here," Rovender said, gesturing around the library.

You notice anything about the skeletons?" Leaphorn was squatting now in the shallow trench, examining bones. "Somebody seemed to be interested in the jawbones," Chee said.

I imagine he'd blow his horn when he threw the hay over. Cows are curious. Worse than cats. They'd come to see about it. And they've got good memories. Do it about twice, and when they hear a horn they think of good alfalfa hay. Come running.

Full of mysticism—most of it nonsense and all muddled up—but something in him driving him to know more than a natural man is supposed to know.

I went out with some FBI agents and knocked the ball into all eighteen holes. It wasn't hard but once you've done it, I don't know why you'd want to do it again.

really think I could learn anything about that diamond

I'm getting to be like a white man," she said. "I'm getting in a hurry for you to tell me what this is all about.

and when she walks into the room, everybody turns: some kind of light is coming from her head. Even the geraniums look curious, and the bees, if they were here, would buzz suspiciously around her hair, looking for the door in her corona. We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy

do yourself a huge favor: Ditch the fear. Hate less and explore more

YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.

Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.

If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

It's a good thing I'm curious, because sometimes I just research how a soccer player kicks a ball and the impact it has on his foot. I haven't used this yet, but I might.

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

I want your first trip to be with me. I want to show you cities and landscapes and teach you how to look at things in new ways and how to get along in places you don't already know inside out. I want to put some life in you...

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.