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Quotes About Curiosity

There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.
~ Vincent Price
I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned how to learn.
~ Vincent Price
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The best way to know life is to love many things
~ Vincent Van Gogh
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream
~ Vincent Van Gogh
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
She lived passionately on very little money and a great deal of curiosity, courage, and enthusiasm for books, nature, a cigarette, a bodice she was cutting out, a concert, a lecture, a fingernail file.
~ Violette Leduc
Happy the man who could search out the causes of things.
~ Virgil
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.
~ Virgil
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
~ Unknown
I sure would like to get kissed. How would that feel on my mouth, How different would I be after, a changed climate down in my insides?
~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
I tell him he's a good boy. He says he knows it. "Good boy sure," he says. I want to dig down way far into his brain and find out some of his details. How does he know? What makes him so convinced?
~ Virginia Euwer Wolff
Mr. Small had to drag his son along. Thomas gaped at the stalactites, fearful that one might fall on him. He was terrified of the stalagmites that they had to walk through.
~ Virginia Hamilton
had also hoped to visit scientists investigating cats' mental talents, but unfortunately very few researchers have looked into the feline mind.
~ Unknown
No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it
~ Unknown
La presunción, tan ingenua, de la ciencia del siglo xviii de poder disolver cualquier sospecha de misterio en el mundo ha dado paso, si no a la humildad, por lo menos a una mayor prudencia.
~ Unknown
Does the troll know he's got his head on back to front?
~ Unknown
Children are deeply curious about odd behaviors and seldom offended or worried by them. What a remarkable gift to bestow on another person, it occurs to me, and so difficult for adults to accomplish.
~ Unknown
Once upon a time, before pizzerias or Taco Bells, there was a troll named Rumpelstiltskin who began to wonder what a human baby would taste like.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
~ Vivienne Westwood
En vérité, l'homme est l'être le plus curieux du monde, murmura-t-il. Il voudrait voler comme un aigle mais il n'a pas ses ailes. Il voudrait avoir la force du lion, mais il n'a pas ses pattes. Comme tu l'as créé terriblement incomplet, Seigneur ! Et en prime, tu lui as donné l'intelligence et le pouvoir de connaître ses faiblesses.
~ Unknown
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.
~ Voltaire