Quotes About Curiosity

Physicians were never consulted for pregnancy, and Margaret knew that when she was confined for delivery, only women would be allowed to attend to her. As late as 1522, a German physician with insatiable curiosity dressed as a woman to observe a birth. His trespass was punished: he was burned to death.

We are afraid of the things we do not know—just because we do not know them.

Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.

Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?

When a peculiar fact or well-stated bit of information triggers a poem, most of what I'll need is there where I stumbled on it. If questions arise later (moons of Jupiter, a three-syllable squid), Google is awfully handy of course.

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

I love to be scared. I'm currently reading Colson Whitehead's Zone One, right?--?last night I thought, okay, I'll stop at the next section break and go to sleep. Only the next section break began in an old farmhouse in Northampton. As I was reading the book in an old farmhouse in Northampton, I kept going for a few more pages.

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we're being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

Math problems are good problems to have.

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

The moon likes secrets ... and secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

A boy is a dangerous animal.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Infants have great intuition, because intuition's about all they've got.

Rarely is the object of your attentions innately dull or compelling. Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

However intrigued by a "turn of the page," I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

Yet what best protected privacy wasn't concealment but apathy—the fact that other people simply weren't interested.