Quotes About Curiosity

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

But what does one say to a ghost, except to ask why he was here? I was afraid of the answer, so instead I said, 'What took you so long?

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.

You must never take a direct route to your destination.

I may have entered her body, but now I want to enter her mind.

Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.

Let the smoky Käll sustain himself on Mars, and Yuko lay rue on Beethoven's grave. Let the lord of the manor of Rochdale clap his coffin into a canoe and disport himself on the waters. Let Zsa-Zsa sleep on a pillow of haddock in Maria's cello case. Let Mrs Wessen live to see her thousandth moon. Let Ysobel unknit her forehead. Let not poor Virginie weep. Let all and no things come to pass, for how will I pass these days?

A skilled teacher and a few good books can always cure ignorance.

Books are for only those who can live without television.

He who knows that he doesn't know, knows what he needs to know.

Just because a thing is funny doesn't mean it doesn't have a mystery.

Millions saw an apple falling but only Newton asked why; because the apple didn't fall onto his head but into his mind.

Never scold or beat a child until he starts asking you questions whose answers you are unable to give.

Science will always give answer to the first question but refuses to the last one.

Teach your tongue to say "I don't know" instead of making up something.

The wise man will say I don't know and the unknowing fool will answer.

There are people in the world having greater faith in those things which they do not understand.

There are two reasons why some people don't mind their own business. One is that they have no mind, and the other is that they have no business.

A man or woman, who remains a student throughout his /her life, is a winner.

Soames was a beautiful and striking woman, tall and lithe and, from the photographs Ive seen of her, feline. Saul's photographs of her over the years catch her in all her complex dimensions: playful, erotic, contemplative, ironic, and eccentric by turns. She was by all accounts charismatic, and was profoundly curious and interested in people. Friends, both men and women, often confided their deepest secrets to her.

We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

A man who limits his interests limits his life.