Quotes About Curiosity

I had never been to Brooklyn and didn't know a thing about it but I liked the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into?

Very softly—so softly I could barely hear her—I heard the girl whisper: "It had to live its whole life like that?" I'd been wondering the same thing;

To me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject.

I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and what music they listened to, wanted to look under their beds and in their secret drawers and night tables and inside the pockets of their coats. Often I saw interesting-looking people on the street and thought about them restlessly for days, imagining their lives, making up stories about them on the subway or the crosstown bus.

The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.

We don't like to admit it," said Julian, "but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.

The world is much stranger than we know or can say.

I was not frightened, for I was one of those happy children who are studiously kept in ignorance of ghost stories, of fairy tales, and of all such lore as makes us cover up our heads when the door creeks suddenly, or the flicker of an expiring candle makes the shadow of a bed-post dance upon the wall, nearer to our faces.

I think I have something growing inside of me.

There's a difference between seeking the truth and being willfully ignorant,

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Never be ashamed of being a learner: Jesus was one at twelve years of age; wen He was found in the temple, He was "sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions" (Luke 2:46).

Do you think the penis ever gets tired?" Whose? Anybody's. I mean anybody with one. Does the penis ever just think: for God's sake pal, give it a rest? Or is it all: Woo-who!! Here we go again!

Science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

I love to read sir. I always have. But when I walk into a library or a bookshop, I get overwhelmed. I don't know where to start. Start anywhere. How do I know what's worth my time and what's a waste? None of it is waste. Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

Even at that age I had stumbled upon one truth, and that is, the best way to get misinformed is to ask a lot of questions.

Can something that does not exist be able to break? It is an interesting question." "More like the sort of question that drives an engineer crazy.

how little we know even today about the most fundamental things.

It's quiet." "Too quiet," Jason said, then laughed. "That's an ancient joke on Earth." "The more I hear about Urth the stranger it gets.

Yes," Kira said, wondering why a boy who had come to another world in a silvery ship would find that impressive. "Come on! We need to get good seats." Jason followed, staring around like a kid from the Great Woods encountering his first Mechanic devices.

One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been. Thomas Groome

That cat is like a two-year-old with four-wheel drive.