Quotes About Curiosity

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Someone asked someone who was about my age: How are you? The answer was, Fine. If you don't ask for details.

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but 'That's funny...?

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wondering if there really is a Dog?

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realise how often they burst into flames

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.