Quotes About Curiosity

Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

Couldn't inquisitiveness be called just real affection with a kind of squint in its eye?

Down the hall is Ms Englander's classroom. She teachers World Civilization. Her walls are covered with images from the Bible, Greek Mythology, and fairy tales. Passing by, I see Eve at the tree, Pandora, Bluebeard's wife. All those women in stories opening boxes they're not supposed to, peeking through doors to see what they shouldn't, eating forbidden fruit. They do it because they want to know what's really going on. They want to feel alive. Why are they always told no?

Did her daughters really think they had a right to know everything about her past? What was it about discovering the truth that had made them both so indignant?

Ever look at the ocean at night, at that fathomless darkness, and wonder what's under there?" he asked. "Same thing that's under it in the daytime." Rachel shrugged. Sam laughed. "I see there's no scaring you into moving a little closer to me for safety.

The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

No one holds so much knowledge that he can find nothing more interesting to know.

What the Fross?" Whispered Kero

Marianne Hering

How did Mr. Tesla get inside the Imagination Station?

I wonder what Adam and Evethink of it by this time.

one must not borrow a long white beard and tie it on and threaten with the scythe of time the casually curious

But I know, at least, that you would keep a library on the subject, and I hoped that I might be allowed to read from it." He regarded me with a bemused expression. "You want me for my library.

Jake pried the head open, giving me a look when I warned him not to cut himself on the teeth. It is a look I think all children master at about his age—the one that insists the looker needs no warning while, by its very confidence, convincing the one looked at that the warning was very necessary indeed.

Good manners warred with curiosity, and lost.

Another thing to study," Natalie said, amused. "Will you ever be done?" I smiled into the sun, one hand holding my bonnet against the firm grasp of the wind. "I should hope not. How dreadfully tedious that would be.

But my desire for knowledge was stronger than my religious sensibilities, which after all were more a matter of unthinking habit than real conviction.

It's a wonderful feeling to have one's brain stretched and tested, to know both that one has knowledge, and that one is gaining more.

where the more distant phrasing can lend a veneer of respectability to the otherwise prurient-seeming habit of a naturalist spying on other creatures' intimate lives).

Tiresias." He was often where he should not be, even where he could not be.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.