Quotes About Curiosity

As we sat by the camp-fire the brightness of the sky brought on a long talk with the Indians about the stars; and their eager childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.

We thought nothing of running right ahead ten or a dozen miles before turning back; for we knew nothing about taking time by the sun, and none of us had a watch in those days.

It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone.

All thinking that is imbued with wonder is graceful and gracious thinking.

I feel that fear is negative wonder. It is the point at which wonder begins to consume itself and scrape off the essence of things.

Where the imagination is alive, wonder is completely alive. Where the imagination is alive, possibility is awake because imagination is the great friend of possibility. Possibilities are always more interesting than their facts.

The real mystery is not that things are the way they are, but that there is something rather than nothing.

All thinking that is imbued with wonder is graceful and gracious thinking. Thought

Is she dead, Mr. Stone Fox? Is she dead?" little Willy asked, looking up at Stone Fox with his one good eye.

Close one Pandora's Box and we open another, the President said. That's science for you, Mr. President.

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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

Never been there, the Middle East, Qatar said vaguely.

SCHIFFER WAS LEAVING, Dannon asked Carver to do a serious look around the yard. One of the radar buzzers had been going off, Dannon said, and he hadn't been able to isolate why. "Probably another goddamn skunk," Carver said. He pulled his jacket back on and went to look.

I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.

So what killed him? Virgil asked. I'm thinking aliens. You mean like, Canadians?

Why bother to go through life if you can't do interesting shit?

You actually don't need to go out to the porn sites.

dealing with a . . . peculiarity. A week after

The woman had thick plastic glasses and looked up at them, eyes large as eggs behind the lenses, and asked, "Jeez, who got murdered?

What!" Schiffer blurted, not a question. Lucas had been watching Carver and Dannon again, and again, their eyes were blank; if they'd been lizards, Lucas thought, a nictitating membrane might have dropped slowly across them.

Because they're

I'm talking to a guy who says he was taken up in a flying saucer and had sexual experiments done on him - which, I got to say, is probably the only sexual experiments he's ever had done on him, that didn't involve a heifer.