Quotes About Curiosity

she'd learned not to ask every question that cane to mind, knowing some things would be understood in their own time

And yet...somehow she knew that she'd seen him before. It was more the effect he had on her than anything about his appearance. It was like he gave off a scent that made her want to run headlong into trouble.

Who knows how long it's been there? It could date back a few hundred years for all I know.' 'Or to Roman times,' he says, smiling wryly.

While other girls were reading teen magazines and romances, you found The Story of O, and it was like a homecoming." "Yes," she breathed. Oh god, yes. "You

Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.

You can say 'What are you looking for' and 'Who are you looking for.' Can you say 'Where are you looking for'?

Why should she try to do these things? What motivates a child to grow?

She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.

Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.

Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

I really like things I don't understand: when I read a thing I don't understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo.

Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what.

Enquanto eu tiver perguntas e não houver resposta continuarei a escrever.

Look, haven't you noticed, none of your questions have answers?

é assim porque é assim. Existe no mundo outra resposta? Se alguém sabe de uma melhor, que se apresente e a diga, estou há anos esperando.

A veces tengo la impresión de que escribo por simple curiosidad intensa. Es que, al escribir, me doy las sorpresas más inesperadas.

Why is a dog free? Because it is the living mystery that doesn't wonder about itself.

But there are questions I asked myself as a child and that were never answered, they still echo mournfully: did the world make itself? But where did it make itself? in what place? And if it was by the energy of God - how did it begin? could it be like now when I am being and at the same time making myself? It's because of the absence of an answer that I get so bothered.

A veces tengo la impresión de que escribo por simple curiosidad intensa. Es que, al escribir, me entrego a las sorpresas más inesperadas. Es a la hora de escribir que muchas veces me vuelvo consciente de cosas, de las cuales, siendo inconsciente, antes no sabía que sabía.

Even though I know that a plant produces flowers, I am still surprised by nature's secret paths.

Só há dois modos de descobrir que a Terra é redonda: ou estudando em livros, ou sendo feliz.