Quotes About Curiosity

I said, "All along I have been wondering how you got to be the way you are. Just how it was that you got to be the way you are.

And my difficulties were these: I found each plant, each new turn in the road, each new turn in the weather, from cold to hot and then back again, each new set of boulders so absorbing, so new, and the newness so absorbing, and I was so in need of an explanation for each thing, that I was often in tears, troubling myself with questions, such as what am I and what is the thing in front of me.

Little known fact: sometimes wizards do things just because it amuses them.

How the hell should I know? I'm just a grunt.

You ever see a cute, furry alien?

Children must not stare at their elders," he said. "That is ill-bred." "Huh?" both of them asked. What's "stare," they wondered; "elders"; "ill-bred"? "Say, 'Sir,' or 'I beg your pardon, Father.' " "Sir?" Rufus said. "You," Father Jackson said to Catherine. "Sir?" Catherine said. "You must not stare at people—look at them, as you are looking at me.

He did not know what "she's worth the saving" meant, and it was one of the things he always took care not to ask, because although it sounded so gentle he was also sure that somewhere inside it there was something terrible to be afraid of exactly because it sounded so gently, and he would become very much afraid instead of only a little afraid if he asked and learned what it meant.

When it crosses my mind to do something, I don't ask why, I ask why not. And usually there's no reason not to, so I just go ahead." He paused, then added,

Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction—creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically. Always ask yourself, what can I improve? Who else can I talk to? Where else can I look?

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn't a voracious reader.

l'unica cosa su cui sarai giudicata è se l'hai chiesto.

These children are so stupid; they think they are the first to discover the world.

Is she laughing at me?'' Cruz said. Both of his men replied, 'Yes.

Me decía: ¡habrían tenido que hacerme leer a Sade antes que todas las demás cosas!

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

People who grow, question what they know.

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

Se há um momento mágico em qualquer viagem é aquele em que se sai do hotel para dar os primeiros passos numa cidade ainda desconhecida.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

Ed è proprio questa la sensazione che prevale: di poter continuare a camminare all'infinito senza giungere da nessuna parte, oppure in luoghi mai nemmeno immaginati, nascosti. La meraviglia ti aspetta dietro ogni angolo, in fondo a ogni vicolo

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.