Quotes About Curiosity

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin

Read every day something no one else is reading.Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read.

Vivere in una libreria è come vivere in un deposito di esplosivi. Su quegli scaffali sono allineati i più tremendi combustibili del mondo: i cervelli degli uomini.

Der Hunger nach guten Büchern ist weiter verbreitet und hartnäckiger, als Sie glauben, aber in gewisser Weise trotzdem vielfach unbewusst. Die Menschen brauchen Bücher, wissen es aber nicht. Meistens wissen sie gar nicht, dass es die Bücher, die sie brauchen, überhaupt gibt.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Byron says he won't go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about "Wool Pooh," the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go.

Now you're looking for the secret, but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.

Bet visada atsiranda vienas ar du, kurie išsineša paslapt? ir kamuojasi d?l jos taip niekada ir nepriart?dami prie jos išsiaiškinimo.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

The best way to kill a good thing is question it to death.

It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.