Quotes About Curiosity

A reader is a voyager, an armchair adventurer, travelling to different times, places, inhabiting different minds and worlds. What fun.

Read everything, absolutely everything. There's no such thing as a book that offers nothing.

Reading is a great way to travel anywhere in the world without making reservations. It's a trip to wherever you wish to go.

Of course, with any new technology, the question in the back of everyone's mind is 'Can I have sex with it or use it to kill people?' -Flintstones Vol. 2: Bedrock Bedlam

I, on the other hand, hoped Ava would never grow up. In my eyes, the fact that she didn't yet know what words meant, and had no concept of herself as something distinct from anything else, made her the greatest show on earth.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

I look at the trees and the birds and I know it's not true. I'm not yet sure how to do it, but I'm going to learn.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

What wine goes with Captain Crunch?

When I first saw a strap on, I put it on my head and ran around like a rhino.

When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping.

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.