Quotes About Curiosity

De radeloze man bezocht een aantal boekhandels en bladerde in tientallen albums van Suske en Wiske maar vond geen spoor van gelijkenis met de verfrommelde, vlekkerige brochure die hij opgerold in Celia's jaszak had gevonden en waarin Suske met een volwassen lid Wiske sodomiseerde terwijl ze beiden op een schommel zwierden en Tante Sidonie zich bezighield met een Coca-Colafles.

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.

As journalists the first lesson we learnt was not to sit on judgment but raise questions.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Two of its members, Rodrigo de Jerez and the interpreter Luis de Torres, had even gone so far as to try the custom for themselves, thus becoming the first Europeans to smoke tobacco.

Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

fun isn't the experience of pleasure, but the outcome of tinkering with a small part of the world in a surprising way. Think

Why isn't everybody the way they were at first? I wonder.

The room of the modern man is stark, but in its simplicity exudes wealth and sophistication. There is just a bed or futon and an iPad. None of the old-time accoutrements which signified intelligence, artistic interest, or a curiosity about the world are evident.

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Never say 'no' to adventures.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

She left the pneumatique at the next stop and went to see what she had done to the world.

BeeJee &ersenn

Kilimanjaro West THREE DAYS HE HAD been watching the rain. Still he could not understand it.

She had almost tripped over him as he watched the drops fall with idiot fascination. Somehow she could not hurry past with a brief flicker of nona dolorosa to indicate her annoyance

Sometimes he irritated her so much that she wanted to throw him back to the rain. The way he sat, the way he watched; watched, watched; what? Rain. And his questions, his utter and absolute ignorance.

Something about him made her watch him, his big hands held out to receive the falling drops, alms of heaven, catching them in his mouth, smiling as they streamed down his face, his chin, his cheeks. Her heart sent her one way. Her feet sent her another, splashing across the street to his side.

Hunger. The first word he had spoken as BeeJee &ersenn knelt beside him on the streaming cobbles. He had rubbed his hands across his belly and said, "Why do I feel this?" Such an incredible question.

The man called Kilimanjaro West watched with wonder and delight and everything was new.

only one man was left in Neu Ulmsbad Square to watch the black and silver pantycars come tunneling out of the clouds. "Is this part of it?" asked the man called Kilimanjaro West.

The universe does not owe us our desires, but it may grant a good question.