Quotes About Curiosity

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Stepping out of the ordinary makes one experience the extraordinary.

Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled--- to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.

If you live the questions, life will move you into the answers.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

Some wonder why things happen, some figure out why things happen, and some wonder why things always happen to them.

Try something new. Chances are you'll enjoy it more than you think.

It is law that guests must be fed before the host's curiosity.

we were only twelve, too young to brood.

But it was not kindness he lacked; it was interest.

i could not stop imagining how it would end

He asked only for curiosity's sake, because it was his nature to seek out answers, to press others for their weaknesses.

i do not know this man, i think. he is no one i have ever seen before.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

If you had your time all over again....? She was keen to know. You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do.

psychoanalysis gets interesting when it shifts the focus from making us more intelligible to ourselves to helping us become more curious about how strange we really are. And so, I would argue, does art.

The Oblivion Seekers, a collection one critic has described as "one of the strangest human documents that a woman has given to the world.

or stays up all night watching colored shadows drift across the walls? At times I have done all of these things, but not in service of science, nor of philosophy, not even of poetry.

Why is the sky blue?" - A fair enough question, and one I have learned the answer to several times. Yet every time I try to explain it to someone or remember it to myself, it eludes me. Now I like to remember the question alone, as it reminds me that my mind is essentially a sieve, that I am mortal.

The Oblivion Seekers

I am desperate for change, endlessly seeking novelty, where i can find it.