Quotes About Curiosity

I felt the baby roll beneath her taut skin. I had never felt that before, never known, honestly, that such a thing happened. It echoed against my palm for a long time after. It was like putting my hand to the surface of the ocean and being able to feel a fish beneath.

A year and a half up that little tributary somewhere?' Tillie said. 'Good God,

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don't even know I'm going.

I'm all for education. Education ideally happens every moment of the day for people. Education is something that should never stop. The Limbaugh Institute, there are no graduates and no degrees 'cause the learning never stops here. You know, education's a pretty big umbrella.

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to , and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Lincoln Child

here to read the rest of the story!

That in and of itself was scandalous, for any well brought up young woman was taught first and foremost that curiosity not only killed the cat, had she been a female feline, she had it coming.

It was said that a man does not look behind a door unless he has once stood there.

Linda Buckley-Archer

The thing about undercover work is that instead of laying low and trying to stay out of trouble, you basically walk around with your stick and jab it into every beehive you can find just to see what flies out.

Whoa! What the hell is that?" "It's a fuckin' head!" Josh swallowed a big wad of something gross at the back of his throat. The two boys exchanged looks. Scott's mouth was open so wide Josh could see the cavities in his back molars. "You mean like a human?" "Well, duh. You ever seen a cow with teeth like that?

When we talk about homeschooling today, we're amazed at how many people agree that they didn't learn much in school, that school teaches kids to pass the test and move on rather than explore and investigate and inquire...

Because we cannot be skilled at thinking unless we are skilled at questioning, we strive for a state of mind in which essential questions become second nature. They are the keys to productive thinking, deep learning, and effective living.

People with intellectual humility (and they are rare) understand that there is far more that they will never know than they will ever know. They continually seek to learn more, to develop their intellectual abilities and expand their knowledge base, always with a healthy awareness of the limits of their knowledge.

Your library is your portrait.

When I look at my books I feel like Alice in the closing pages of Wonderland, when the cards all rise up and overwhelm her.

When I was young, boys invited in for sex would examine your bookshelves.

Wait until you see him up on a horse

Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth.

But why the last? I ask. Why not live each day as if it were the first— all raw astonishment . . .