Quotes About Curiosity

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Everybody masturbates in libraries. That's what they're for.

You are the strangest child," she told me. "I had no idea," she said. "I didn't begin to know.

But may I ask, Marcus, merely out of curiosity, how you manage to get by in life—filled as our lives inevitably are with trial and tribulation—lacking religious or spiritual guidance?" "I get straight A's, sir.

But then I thought, Why bestow on him all this thinking? Why the appetite to know this guy? Ravenous because once upon a time he said to you and to you alone, "Basketball was never like this, Skip"? Why clutch at him? What's the matter with you? There's nothing here but what you're looking at.

For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded.

For scientists, not knowing is exciting. It's an opportunity to discover; the more that is unknown, the greater the opportunity.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Cuál es el significado de la vida?», le preguntó el estudiante al rabino. El rabino respondió: «Esa es una pregunta maravillosa, ¿por qué la quiere cambiar por una respuesta?»

Tolkien regretted the degeneration of real curiosity and enthusiasm, and called for research motivated by love of knowledge rather than hunger for a job.

Everyone and everything needed to be raised to its highest level – the teacher must become a mage, the husband a knight errant, the labor a hero in a sacred drama – intensified, rarefied, baptized in the turbulent waters of restlessness, curiosity, and ardor.

The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice!

But Anne, do you love him? I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.

Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.

Why not?' She asks the most challenging questions that a woman can ask. 'Why should I not read? Why should I not think? Why should I not speak?

The more that I learn, the more sure I am that I have very much to learn...

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For these are true boys and they draw dirt to them as if by magic.

I've never eaten a taco, and I don't plan to.

He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer.

Hold the question in your mind, but lightly, like it was something alive.

Oh, I find whatever you do a source of perpetual fascination.

We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different world, and then we'll build...

Poor man! Is your curiosity so hot for what you've been denied? And you men put the blame on Eve and excuse Adam.