Quotes About Curiosity

one more piece of evidence that assigned reading makes nothing happen.

What kind of magpie keeps this notebook?

But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of our own memories but of the experiences of characters from the books we've been reading. That's if we are lucky to have the education and leisure to read at all. And the curiosity

When Tracy was three she looked up at her aunt and asked, Why don't we have dessert for breakfast?

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She always had that look about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

Gli abitanti di Lansquenet hanno imparato l'arte di osservare senza incrociare i suoi occhi. Sento il loro sguardo come un respiro sulla nuca, stranamente privo di ostilità, e tuttavia freddo. Per loro siamo una curiosità, parte del carnevale, una ventata che viene da terre lontane.

People are reserved, pretending indifference though inwardly they burn with curiosity.

It turned out that my curiosity did not outweigh my courage after all. Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for.

It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever think to explore.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?