Quotes About Curiosity

I would presume nothing. I would take notes.

We want Jesus to come to our house, but we're going to question Him when He gets there.

The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah, those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people...well, they're not people at all, Bruno.' Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that.

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

It's a big world, isn't it?' said Georgie. 'Do you think they hate each other on other planets too?

Can I ask you something? He added after a moment. 'yes,' said Shmuel. Bruno thought about it. He wanted to phrase the question just right. 'why are there so many people on that side of the fence?' He asked. 'And what are you all doing there?

Some things are just sitting there, waiting to be discovered. Other things are probably better off left alone

Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions.

Îns?, în timp ce reflect? astfel, picioarele îl duser? pas cu pas din ce în ce mai aproape de punctul din dep?rtare, care între timp devenise o pat?, apoi se transform? într-un strop. ?i în curând dup? aceea, stropul deveni o siluet?. Dup? care, când Bruno se apropie È™i mai mult, v?zu c? nu era nici punct, nici pat?, nici strop, nici siluet?, ci o f?ptur?. De fapt, era un b?iat.

No, not them,' said Bruno. 'The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah, those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people … well, they're not people at all, Bruno.' Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that.

He put his face to the glass and saw what was out there, and this time when his eyes opened wide and his mouth made the shape of an O, his hands stayed by his sides because something made him feel very cold and unsafe.

Wenn ein Mensch nachts in den Himmel schaut, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass er Astronom ist - Pavel

Ein Junge, der bereit war, neue Menschen kennenzulernen. Ein Junge, der neue Abenteuer erleben wollte. Und vor allem: ein Junge der stolz darauf war, anders zu sein.

charm and attraction, and it is the core of their innocence. Children live in the now and are oriented to pleasure. They accept life's "queer conundrums

Darwin knew that the mother of the blush was shame. For Darwin, shame defines our essential humanity. Silvan Tomkins views shame as an innate feeling that limits our experience of interest, curiosity and pleasure.

Children are natural believers—they know there is something greater than themselves.

When we think we are absolutely right, we stop seeking new information. To be right is to be certain, and to be certain stops us from being curious.

The very characteristics of childhood I am describing—wonder, dependency, curiosity, optimism—are crucial to the growth and flowering of human life.

Teach your inner child to check things out. Give him permission to ask lots of questions.

Every aspect of life is an experiment that can be better understood if it is perceived in that way.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

delight in good ideas.

We all start from radical ignorance in a world that is endlessly strange, vast, complex, intricate, and surprising. Deliverance from ignorance lies in good concepts—inference fountains that geyser out insights that organize and increase the scope of our understanding.