Quotes About Curiosity

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder . . . he [or she] needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate." — Rachel Carson, A sense of wonder

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

I never married because I was too easily boref. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

The Strand proudly proclaims itself as home to eighteen miles of books. I have no idea how this is calculated. Does one stack all the books on top of each other to get the eighteen miles? Or do you put them end to end, to create a bridge between Manhattan and, say, Short Hills, New Jersey, eighteen miles away? Were there eighteen miles of shelves? No one knew. We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust? Whatever

If Caroline was here, she'd give me her Patience, grasshopper speech. But she's not and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

You don't know who Nicholas Sparks is?" Dash asked. I shook my head. "Please don't ever find out," he said.

It's much better to be too easily interested.

What had drawn a non-Jewish woman of her generation to this obscure life as a specialist in Jewish studies?

When any man of any nation cries out in his wish to know God, then his questions merit considering.

Yes, and how did Josephus know?" continued Helen. "He wasn't on Masada, he was with the Roman army.

I gladly conspire with you, as all we men of philosophy breathe the same air of questions wheresoever we reside.

To learn to play seriously is one of the great secrets of spiritual exploration.

Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never know you'd had

Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never known you'd had.

Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious.

La pregunta es hija de la libertad.

Morgana hat viel erlebt, und durch die Jahrtausende weise geworden, blieb es doch im Herzen ein Kind. Es ist bis heute noch kindlich genug, Neuem gegenüber Verwunderung zu empfinden. Und wer im Herzen ein Kind bleibt, wird vom Leben mit Wundern belohnt.

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Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.