Quotes About Curiosity

Pope Sixtus the Fifth?

Sometimes, when you run through all of the questions, you have an answer while other times you end up with nothing to show for your effort but the ticklish amusement of flexing your brain.

The place felt sinister, though. Your imagination can get the better of you where a road ends against a forest.

The minute you start thinking you know how things work, you're dead.

He was determined to take the first flight out, wherever it went. Anywhere had to be better than this.

We must know. We will know.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

After all my years working with the dying and the grieving, I have found that in this lifetime, the ultimate meaning we find is in everyone we have loved. Your loved one's story is over. For unknown reasons, their time on earth has drawn to a close, but yours continues. I can only invite you to be curious about the rest of the story of your life.

There is always something new to learn about the person you love.

I don't want to know anything, and I want to know it all

I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

But there's something about her—the cities on her shoes, the flash of bravery, the unnecessary sadness—that makes me want to know what the word will be when it stops being a sound. I have spent years meeting people without ever knowing them, and on this morning, in this place, with this girl, I feel the faintest pull of wanting to know. And in a moment of either weakness or bravery on my own part, I decide to follow it. I decide to find out more.

We're told that the most powerful words in the world are 'I love you.' And while I think those are powerful, I think equally powerful is this phrase: I have started to know you, and I want to know more.

Everybody wonders why he disappeared. I wonder why he came back.

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid, and I discovered that letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been

Must interests be interesting? That is, must they be interesting to someone other than yourself?

I try to get the basic facts, not the details. The details can be interesting, but they can also distract me into attachment. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be homes to me. They must be hotel rooms.

I stole Judy Blume's 'Forever' from my sister when I was eight,' I say. 'I figured if it was by the author of 'Superfudge', it had to be good. Well, I soon realized why she kept it under her bed. I'm not sure I understood it all, but I thought it was unfair that the boy would name his, um, organ, and the girl wouldn't name hers. So I decided to give mine a name.' Rhiannon is laughing. What was its name?' Helena. I introduced everyone to her at dinner that night. It went over really well.

No! Tony/Toni/Toné exclaims. I saw the two of you canoodling. You're a regular Johnny Castle. I have no idea who Johnny Castle is, but I definitely approve of the name.

What did Pandora do with her box after she'd unleashed despair into the world? Did she keep it on her mantel as a reminder of what she'd done?

They certainly won't think she's been taken over by the devil. If anything, they're suspicious that the devil's taken a day off.

We thought there was a wall around our story. But what if there were windows?