Quotes About Curiosity

My ideal traveler is the person who goes the old, laborious way into the unknown, and it is this belief that lies behind my travel, and drives me.

This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world. And also that we ought to want to know.

Everyone has come to celebrate her return. They will go home and talk about it forever, unto the next generation. But they will not come here and ask about her welfare.

Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

How's the water? asked her father. It's lovely, she replided. Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.

One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see.

A journey is an adventure. Henry Miller said that it is far more important to discover a church no one has heard of, than go to Rome and feel obliged to visit the Sistine Chapel, with two hundred thousand tourists shouting all around you. Go to the Sistine Chapel, but also get lost in the streets, wander down alleyways, feel free to look for something, without knowing what it is. I swear you will find it and that it will change your life.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ?

Veronica hated everything, but mainly she hated the way she had lived her life, never bothering to discover the hundreds of other Veronicas who lived inside her and who were interesting, crazy, curious, brave, bold.

Those who wish to learn magic ought to begin by looking around them.

You don't have to climb a mountain to find out whether or not it's high.

Like the children we will never ever cease to be.

Where have you been? is not an empty question. anyone asking it is also saying I missed you, I want to be with you,I need to know what you've been up to

Where will my heart lead if I've yet to wander so many unknown paths?

But ever since he had been a child, he wanted to know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowing God and learning about man's sins.

Don't try to convince anyone of anything. When you don't know something, ask or go away and find out. But when you do act, be like the silent, flowing river and open yourself to a greater energy. Believe -- that's what I said at our first meeting -- simply believe that you can.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.