Quotes About Curiosity

The alterations effected at La Baudraye made everybody eager to see the young mistress, all the more so because Dinah would never show herself, nor receive any company, before she felt quite settled in her home and had thoroughly studied the inhabitants, and, above all, her taciturn husband.

Egész Párizs odagy?lik hozzá, ahogy a cs?cselék lepi el a Grève teret, ha kivégzés készül. Azért mennek oda, hogy lássák, tudja-e leplezni fájdalmát ez az asszony, tud-e szépen meghalni. Nem rémes?

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.

The farther I travel, the less I wonder at anything: a few days reconcile one to a new spot, or an unseen custom; and men are so much the same everywhere, that one scare perceives a change in situation.

Too much certainty is a miserable thing, while the unknowable has a pristine beauty and a wonder with no end.

He loved to be among people and talk to them, find out what they had done and what they believed in. He felt that everybody was a traveler on the same journey, and a person should be interested in what others had learned along the way. But the Public was a different matter. The Public was too delicate, too selfish and selfabsorbed, a loud collective Voice clamoring with complaints, demanding attention.

One of the great killers in Bible study is the statement, "I already know that.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

I think that physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. Once you are sophisticated, you know too much-far too much.

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college — that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"

The world is full of mostly invisible things,And there is no way but putting the mind's eye,Or its nose, in a book, to find them out,Things like the square root of EverestOr how many times Byron goes into Texas,Or whether the law of the excluded middleApplies west of the Rockies.

There's a Russian proverb: To taste the ocean, all you need is one gulp.

When you do something for the first time, questions and problems are the two things you can count on.

Deux plus deux faisaient-ils quatre au temps des dinosaures?

Solomon raised an eyebrow. Or rather, he left it where it was and dropped his body slightly.

His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.

I didn't feel so bad about the myrrh, because I've never been quite certain what it is.

It was like suddenly discovering a family of otters in one of your shoes. If you've ever done that.

There's no such thing as a boring subject, only a bored listener who hasn't bothered to search for the relevance of the message to them.

faced with so much mystery, most of us find it hard to settle for simple awe.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

We gaan zien. Wij gaan zien. Toch.