Quotes About Curiosity

She stands just outside her door, puzzled, vaguely disquieted.

He says, "You have a fox in there.

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our

During the one minute of wakefulness after his head meets the pillow, he wonders not who he once was, not why that life is behind him and beyond recapture, not what organization finances him and crafts his missions. He wonders only how he was made into what he has become. Strange science must be involved, which intrigues him. Sleep.

soon the girls had Barty enthusiastically involved in a make-believe world far different from the one in which Heinlein's teenage lead owned an extraordinary alien pet with eight legs, the temperament of a kitten, and an appetite for everything from grizzly bears to Buicks.

What's he a mix of—fox with fox?

The stranger has gone to the back of the vehicle. "He's trying the liftgate," Libby says.

Like his more engaging story, mine suggests that the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time

Most likely, she's witnessing not an escape, but a penetration.

Like her grandfather, she is a knowledge sponge.

you have a great deal of time to fill. The most pleasant way to fill it is by studying and learning things. One of the things Woody had greatly enjoyed learning was classical mythology.

Now Michael J. watches her from high on the sycamore.

for whom arrest warrants were outstanding. He sought the name Nathan Palmer—and began to make a list of curious facts.

We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn. My

She believed in pursuing the truth of things rather than living in the pleasure of ignorance, and never before had a mystery as abstruse as this challenged her.

Katie says, "What do you know that I don't?

areas of knowledge about which he was ignorant and probably always would be. There was only so much time.

Einstein watched with interest and did not seem even slightly woozy from his half-bottle of San Miguel. "Okay," Travis said, "I need

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge, why would the effort matter, what would be the point.

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our knowledge." He realized that he was

Charles Mainway

A lot of the time, I don't much care where I go, just so I go somewhere.

don't mean to be macabre, but I realized I don't know how Tanner Walsh died.

If it's not a man that Zenon and Rice have come after, then what have they shot?