Quotes About Curiosity

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

She supposed she could Google, but she preferred to wonder.

Jack picked a piece of mint from his glass and chewed on it for a second. "I'm curious," he said, "is telling someone to relax ever helpful? It's like saying 'breathe' to someone who is hyperventilating or 'swallow' to a person who's choking. It's a completely useless admonition.

Why do you taste like dessert?" Iona wanted to know. He deliberately let his eyes widen. "Because I'm awesome?

Why me?" Claire asked him. "Fuck if I know." She blinked. Well, that wasn't exactly some romantic confession.

The man was unusual. He'd committed a truly fatal sin while in the bank with her. He'd made her curious. Few things could penetrate the veil that seemed to surround her. Chloe had always known she was different from other people. She didn't respond to things the way others did. She didn't laugh often. She didn't feel the rush of emotions that others seemed to enjoy so easily. Most days, she felt as if nothing at all touched her. Today, Joel Landry had touched her.

What would you like to do tonight?" Go to the moon with you.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

If I had to tell what the world is for me I would take a hamster or a hedgehog or a mole and place him in a theatre seat one evening and, bringing my ear close to his humid snout, would listen to what he says about the spotlights, sounds of the music, and movements of the dance.

Poetry is an attempt to penetrate the dense reality to find a place where the simplest things look as new as through the eyes of a child.

In other words the little piece of polished wood had become one of her treasures. Sometimes she took it out and held it in her hand and thought about the man who had made it, and wondered what he had looked like; (she had such a very hazy idea of history that she imagined him shaggy and attired in the skin of a bear). And she wondered how the arrow had got broken and where the other piece of it could be . . . but although she searched assiduously, high and low, she never found it.

Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination.

Wherever Paula went she made friends and gathered information—she was interested in everything and everybody, and her interest drew people toward her and opened their hearts. Her manner was always natural and sincere, and it rarely failed to evoke a natural and sincere response—she was never patronizing, never gushing, never subservient, she was always herself.

An American travelling acquaintance once said to Peter: "I guess you like to look on at life from a third-floor window." It was such a startling insight into his character that Peter was quite alarmed.

but she told Aunt Bella everything else, and Aunt Bella listened enthralled. She nodded and sighed and asked the right questions in the right places, for she was a romantically minded woman for all her bustling, practical common sense. "Well,

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?" -Spader

There's more to everything that what's obvious," he always said. "You just have to look for it.

One moment they were in a Brandenyard street, the next running by wicket-fenced fields where stupidly dignified goats with great, flopping ears and fat, overlong noses stared at them solemnly.

The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was a remake of 'Poltergeist,' which I hadn't seen yet because my parents wouldn't allow me to. But I made my own version of it, and it starred my brother in a bed sheet.

I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it.

If you know what you want, you use Google. But if you don't know what you want, and you want to be surprised and find something you didn't expect, we want you come to StumbleUpon. Really, that idea of being a discovery engine versus a search engine.

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.