Quotes About Curiosity

Why does everybody think I'm so wild? I'm not wild. I happen to stumble onto wildness. It gets in my path.

St. Thomas Aquinas, she knew, was reputed to say that he feared the man who had just one book, and she understood what he meant about the narrowness of outlook that could give. However, she thought, perhaps a man with one well-loved book might be a more rounded individual than the man who possessed hundreds and never opened any of them.

There is no time for fear. It's much too interesting.

crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.

Meeya Meefla, where

Books should always be open.

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.

I while yet a youth wrote in a quite large volume three books of magical things, which I called De occulta philosophia , in which whatever was then erroneous because of my curious youth, now, more cautious, I wish to retract by this recantation, for formerly I spent much time and goods on these vanities.

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

I've always been fascinated by famous people, but I'm more interested in the flaws and quirks that make them human than in their public image.

You always fall hardest the first time, don't you? There's no bottom to it. As I reached teenagehood and beyond, I'd hear guys say: I just don't get women. And sure, I didn't get women either, but wasn't that the best part, the not knowing? Where else could that wild, passionate, scream-it-from-the-rooftops love come from?

We can be completely ignorant about how or why something works and yet still relish the results.

Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

I sometimes wonder if fear isn't just God's way of saying, 'Pay attention, this could be fun.

I want to learn and continue to learn. It's the only way to stay alive.

Look out there, my little princess," he called down to her. "These plants are only the very tip of the earth's treasures, almost like hairs on her head. She hides so many other secrets deep within her, and one day, if you're lucky, you may find some of them.

As he began to drift again Jean was never sure whether he saw or did not see, a troupe of monkeys clad in blue Hussar coats piped with yellow twist, enter from a small door to swing across the great chamber and exit like nomadic wanderers into a great door emblazoned by the setting sun.

Hey youngster, I didn't catch your name." I paused for only a second, continuing to look down the valley at the small town. "I didn't throw it.

As we started to turn and walk out, the big and easy Samoan reached over and touched Henry's shoulder, the arm attached having powered the biker's head into the drywall of the Rapid City Regional Hospital. "I know you?" The Bear smiled the one-crease-at-the-corner-of-his-mouth smile. "Momentarily.

Wonder. There is wonder in you, along with a little impatience. You are standing outside of yourself, looking at yourself, conscious of a rhythm within yourself, several rhythms, and the sound of drums from far away.

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.