Quotes About Curiosity

Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train.

How should we live? someone asked me in a letter. I had meant to ask him the same question. 0 likes

Chiedo scusa alle grandi domande per le piccole risposte che ho dato.

Remarkable. A hanged bird. A hanged sparrow. The eccentricity of it clamored with a loud voice and pointed to a human hand that had torn into the thicket—but who? Who hanged it, why, for what reason? .

Considering the bird, considering the stick, perhaps finally I'll also find out what it is with the mouths. (Why? How? What an absurdity!)

Mnie wiÄ™c nie wolno byÅ'o siÄ™ przyglÄ…da? i staraÅ'em siÄ™ nie widzie?, ale, majÄ…c przed sobÄ… Fryderyka, który siedziaÅ' obok niej na Å'aweczce, znów natrÄ™tnie zapytywaÅ'em siebie: czy widziaÅ'? Czy wiedziaÅ'? I czyhaÅ'em na jedno chocia?by spojrzenie jego, z tych niby obojÄ™tnych a przeÅ›lizgujÄ…cych siÄ™ chyÅ'kiem, Å'akomych.

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.

When I die, my first question to the devil will be: What is the meaning of the fine structure constant

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

El experimento del profesor Kugelmass -Señor Kugelmass, lo peor que puede usted hacer es ignorar la realidad. Limítese a declarar aquí sus pensamientos, y los dos juntos lo analizaremos. Ya lleva usted en tratamiento un tiempo suficiente como para saber que nadie se cura de la noche a la mañana. Después de todo, yo soy analista, no mago. -Entonces lo que necesito quizás es un mago -exclamó Kugelmass, levantándose. Y con eso dio por terminada su terapia.

Jednak zasadniczy problem brzmi: Czy co? jest tam, na zewn?trz? I dlaczego? I czy musi tak ha?asowa??

Don't go away! Have a taste of old Monkey's rod!

And moreover, his curiosity and thirst for knowledge were such that he must needs inquire from every one he met the explanation of this, that, and the other; and his own wits were so lively that he was ever ready with an answer himself for any question put to him, so that talkativeness had become, as it were, his second nature. But

What do you do for a living? The first thing everyone always wants to know is what I do when I'm not sleeping, what sorts of exams and theses I have to my name as if they wanted to reserve a place in my curriculum vitae for the date of my death. There ought to be a curriculum vitae whose first line is the date of death.

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.

Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?

Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

We believe what we see. So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark?