Quotes About Curiosity

If there is magic in this world, it is contained in water, but I have always known that if there is magic in this world, it is contained in books.

I fall quiet in my seat as we circle round and round that miniature city of the future. I wonder, Father, in that future city is there a tiny colored girl who no longer keeps her eyes down?

Books made me believe that smart girls who didn't necessarily fit in with the popular crowd could be the ones to solve mysteries, rescue people in distress, ferret out international criminals, fly spaceships to distant planets, take up arms and fight battles.

So, what are my numbers?" Harley asked, pressing some buttons randomly.

Sex is a story you know the ending of. More or less the same story with the same ending, every time. Yet we want to keep hearing it, the way a child listens to a fairy tale, vigilant for variation.

Am I a vampire?" Massie asked. "Huh?" Alicia asked. "Then why are you keeping me in the dark?

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.

job to remember everything. But the lady was a conundrum wrapped in an enigma. Alas, Napier loved nothing better

A spell perhaps?" The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.

There's something in the back of my mind when I wake up. Just out of reach. Like when you get a bit of food stuck between your teeth, right at the back of your mouth.

People were pointing and muttering to each other

I let out a breath. So basically we needed to find a place where what we saw wasn't really there, and then climb up a tongue into a giant's mouth. Excellent.

Mr. Beeston

Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I'd found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.

I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didn't I knew what I preferred, and that was—I didn't want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.

The surprising thing is where I'd found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend.

She didn't want to encourage me by asking questions. She didn't want me to go deeper into that other world. She worried she would lose her Matilda to Victorian England.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Frecuentemente hay más que aprender de las preguntas inesperadas de un niño que de los discursos de un hombre" (John Locke)

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.