Quotes About Curiosity

I matrimoni degli altri sono una perpetua fonte di perplessità», commentò Stephen.

Patrick Skene Catling

Patrick Skene Catling

The bedroom door opened a few inches. "Hey

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Don't be afraid of silly ideas.

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.

The principle of scientific inquiry should not be limited to merely the practical or the possible, explained Sighter. Only by investigating the unlikely and the unthought-of is the sum total of knowledge advanced.

If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out.

In reality the gatherings were held in order to entertain these few Moslem guests, to whom the unaccountable behavior of Europeans never ceased to be a fascinating spectacle. Most of the Europeans, of course, thought the Moslem gentlemen were invited to add local color.

Only then did he understand that he really wanted to know nothing about El Ga'a beyond the fact that it was isolated and unfrequented, that it was precisely those things he had been trying to ascertain about it.

Are you ready to bring back a weapon from another world?

Serious circumstances remind us that the difficulty of finding the truth is no excuse for not looking.

DI Cartwright: The cat is booby trapped? DI Quill: Welcome to my world.

Clean this place out. I want hard drives, gadgets, papers, circuit boards, everything. Grab the pencil sharpener if it looks interesting.

End? You don't mean like, dead end?

Childhood is built on bad decision-making.

You can go anywhere in books

Intellectual curiosity was not one of the motives on the FBI's list. Indeed, the whole concept seemed foreign to them. Those in authority tend to be annoyed by hackers' general attitude of disobedience. But that disobedience is a byproduct of the qualities that make them good programmers.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Nobody knows something about everything.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

If there are things you don't know, you call the gap in your knowledge a mystery and fill it in with a wholly emotional answer.

She felt the curious flattening of inquiring spirit the traveller suffers from, knowing himself without occupation or investment in the fortunes of a strange city.