Quotes About Curiosity

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

We cannot be deaf to the question: 'Do I love this world so well that I have to know how it ends?

O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.

As though it had always been forbidden to remember each of us grew up knowing nothing about the beginning

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.

My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

I am the Earl of Ravensmoor. And you are? (Sparhawk) Totally freaking out. (Taryn) Tis a most peculiar name, milady. Are you by chance Welsh? (Sparhawk)

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!

I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.

I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered, "It doesn't do anything. It's just a Christmas gift."

Gazzy sniffed the air. "That's explosives. It smells like Christmas!" Okay, so we've had somewhat untraditional Christmases. With explosives.

Matt is grinning at me like I'm the new Christmas toy he really wanted, but can't play with yet because he hasn't read the instructions.

The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.