Quotes About Curiosity

The world is full of damp rocks, with some very strange creatures hiding under them.

Cathy introduced us. Christine stood there inside her smooth skin, warm and indolent, mildly speculative.

Once in a while they show up to ask some more questions, but you are amiable, slightly stupid, and very polite.

and you wondered if you'd be alive next time Halley's Comet came round

What sort of tale have I fallen into? is a question that would help us all a great deal if we wondered it for ourselves.

What makes journalist so fascinating, and biography so interesting [is] the struggle to answer that single question: 'What's he like?

What are you, where did you come from, and whither are you bound?"— the question which from Homer's days has been put to the wayfarer in strange lands — is likewise the all-absorbing question which man is ever asking of the universe of which he is himself so tiny yet so wondrous a part.

Oh,clever... what's the use of that? Are they human beings?

I needed a new mystery.

How I hate ignorance! Caliban's ignorance, my ignorance, the world's ignorance! Oh, I could learn and learn and learn and learn. I could cry, I want to learn so much.

Beware of the waiting room. He closed the door at once, as if he had rehearsed that moment. I opened it quickly, and leaned out to call after him, The what? He turned, but only to give a sharp wave, the Trafalgar Square crowd swallowed him up. I couldn't get the smile on his face out of my mind, it secreted an omission. Something he'd saved up, a mysterious last word. Waiting room. Waiting room. Waiting room. It went round in my head all that evening.

No es el poco saber lo que genera necesariamente la ignorancia: saber demasiado, o querer saber demasiado, puede producir el mismo resultado.

Remember: The answers are in the questions.

I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.

Who'll try it?" Samantha asked.

What's on the high side?" Koane asked.

of the top lid opens slowly. Mercifully, there is no dead baby inside. Far from it. Vanessa pauses to study the collection of small wooden cigar boxes all sealed with a band of silver duct tape and for the most part stacked in rows. Sweat is dripping from her eyebrows and she tries to swipe at it with a forearm. Carefully

Looking back, the first symptom was a gradual decrease in his ability to concentrate at work. Naturally curious and active, he noticed an uncharacteristic tendency to procrastinate.

Ms Finney shared an office on the third floor with several other court reporters. Their software system was called Veritas. Theo had hacked into it before when he had been curious about something that happened in court. It was not a secure system because the information was available in open court. Anyone could walk into the courtroom and watch the trial. Anyone, of course, who was not confined by the rigors of middle school.

is this?" Wally growled angrily. "Why is everybody

thought, a tour was just what

We who are white men can't change who we are. But we could do worse than to follow what I took that summer as his example: to be aware of and curious about the world around you, to give what you have with neither apology nor self-congratulation. When praise comes to see you, get out on the fire escape. When it's someone else's time to talk, listen. Don't turn your house into a museum. When your work is done, get out of the way.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?