Quotes About Curiosity

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

People are so much more fascinated by the royal family generally than in England.

You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

Read, read read. Read everything.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.