Quotes About Curiosity

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

O menininho brinca no tapete enquanto nós adultos rimos contando coisas da infância do pai dele e dos tios. Ele ergue o rosto e indaga: — Do que vocês estão falando? — Da infância — responde alguém. — Infância é legal? — Muito. — A gente não pode viajar pra lá? Era o que estávamos fazendo

To get to know someone new, you need to touch a lot.

Birds will give you a window, if you allow them. They will show you secrets from another world– fresh vision that, though it is avian, can accompany you home and alter your life. They will do this for you even if you don't know their names– though such knowing is a thoughtful gesture. They will do this for you if you watch them.

Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.

With my new habit of carrying binoculars everywhere, I feel imbued with a readiness to see, an attitude that my life itself is a kind of field trip. The urban naturalist has the terrific luxury of stepping out her door and into "the field," without long rides or carpools, or putting money in for gas and Dairy Queen. When does the field trip being? Whenever we start paying attention.

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor.

I have never associated myself with such an unexpected part of the body as the thyroid

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it. So I still act as though my feelings were the center of everything, and they still cause me to end up alone by the living-room window late at night.

Cat, gray tabby, calm, watches large, black ant. Man, rapt, stands staring at cat and ant. Ant advances along path. Ant halts, baffled. Ant back-tracks fast—straight at cat. Cat, alarmed, backs away. Man, standing, staring, laughs. Ant changes path again. Cat, calm again, watches again.

She found it an interesting exercise to explore a place with a person she did not know well, following not only her own impulses but also his.

queria saber apenas para onde vão os piolhos dos decapitados. Um enigma.

It is as though each of us investigated and made his own only a tiny circle of facts. Knowledge outside the day's work is regarded by most men as gewgaw. Still we are constantly in reaction against our ignorance. We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.

The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.

The great pleasure of ignorance is, after all, the pleasure of asking questions. The man who has lost this pleasure or exchanged it for the pleasure of dogma, which is the pleasure of answering, is already beginning to stiffen.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

They are the adventurers with no goal other than the everyday joy of discovery – they are galumphing.

Open your eyes. It looks kind of creepy, and I think the lady at the nearest table wonders if you've got narcolepsy." I