Quotes About Curiosity

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

nu simt decât c? am un curcubeu în cap… ?i trebuie s? beau întruna ap? ca s? nu se evapore… ?i s? stau în lumin? ca s? sclipeasc?… s?-l pot vedea

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

Nos da miedo preguntar porque nos da miedo saber.

Sobretudo, ele gostava do mar. Mergulhava, boiava, velejava, navegava, saltava, nadava, deixava-se submergir. Desenhava-o, pintava-o, estudava-lhe correntes, profundidades, marés, faunas e floras. Fazia praia e a praia fazia-se aos que queriam segui-lo. Outubro ia avançado e a corte em Cascais, e D. Carlos com a mão pousada na amurada do veleiro, cabeça muito redonda virada ao vento norte. Quem lhe dera que a política fosse assim gélida e frontal.

Prefiero que mi mente se abra movida por la curiosidad a que se cierre movida por la convicción. GERRY SPENCE

Para convertirse en un observador de sí mismo, de los demás y del mundo hay que tener una mentalidad de principiante, de alguien que reconoce que no sabe y que quiere saber. Y esto no es posible sin el interés que despierta la curiosidad.

Nos enseñaron desde niños cómo se forma un cuerpo sus órganos sus huesos sus funciones sus sitios pero nunca supimos de qué estaba hecha el alma

Un encanto de tipo. ¿Por qué no se morirá?

Podrías acercarte de sorpresa y decirme «¿Qué tal?»

lo curioso es que no se esconde detrás sino delante de su inexperiencia

Usted me gusta, vamos a ver que pasa.

Siempre quise un altillo. Cuando tenía nueve años, cuando tenía doce…siempre quise un altillo para escaparme. ¿De quien? Nunca lo supe. Francamente quisiera saber si todos están seguros de quien escapan. Nadie lo sabe

Miércoles 10 de abril Avellaneda tiene algo que me atrae. Eso es evidente, pero ¿qué es?

Galileo was hailed as a Columbus of the heavens. The Scottish librarian Thomas Segeth raved: "Columbus gave man lands to conquer by bloodshed, Galileo new worlds harmful to none. Which is better?

The Greek excellence in mathematics was largely a direct consequence of their passion for knowledge for its own sake, rather than merely for practical purposes. A story has it that when a student who learned one geometrical proposition with Euclid asked, "But what do I gain from this?" Euclid told his slave to give the boy a coin, so that the student would see an actual profit.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix)

I can't help thinking: Am I related in some traceable way to all redheads, if there were any such genetic thing as "all redheads"?

I know a lot of people do jobs their whole lives that they don't find fascinating. Wonder is a luxury. But I wanted it.