Quotes About Curiosity

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.

Learning isn't meant to be confined to a box, and students virtually never 'master' a topic simply by taking a class.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

In China they don't mind getting their cameras out, but I try to go with the flow. In countries where there is not so much disability visible on the streets, they want to know who you are and what you are doing.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

Not knowing is a good place to start," he says, and this feels like a revelation. I spend so much time trying to figure things out, chasing the answer, but it's okay to not know .

At a certain point, we all have to come to terms with the unknown and the unknowable. Sometimes we'll never know why.

I wonder why I seem to be more curious about you than you are about yourself?

Not knowing is a good place to start," he says, and this feels like a revelation. I

I'm not exactly certain what got into me, besides him.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

Dear Lord, had he seen her cheetah-print panties?

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

What the devil is that?" Jack asked. Frannie eased around to see what Jack was staring at. Greystone's back bore a painting of an unusual creature with fire coming out of its mouth and wings spread wide.

Expectations were never in short supply. "Do you want to know?" he asked. "I suppose it depends on the answer." "Which answer would you prefer?" "I'm not really sure. Both leave a lot to be desired.