Quotes About Curiosity

Space exploration was not for the squeamish.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

If you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle.

Children have generative power. They create meaning as they busily connect with whatever is happening. But grown-ups often forget that ability. They tend to lose that playful, adventuresome, creative generativity by which they can ask themselves: What's worth doing today?

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Why do we not put aside such curiosity and cling simply to the words of Christ, willing to remain in ignorance of what takes place here and content that the real body of Christ is present by virtue of the words?72 Or is it necessary to comprehend the manner of the divine working in every detail?

Like sexual intercourse, death needs foreplay.

The secret to mastery in any field is to forever be a student.

[On extraterrestrial life:] Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Allmen musste ein Buch, das er einmal angefangen hatte, zu Ende lesen, selbst wenn es noch so schlecht war. Er tat dies nicht aus Respekt dem Autor gegenüber, sondern aus Neugier. Er glaubte, dass jedes Buch ein Geheimnis habe, und sei es auch nur die Antwort auf die Frage, weshalb es geschrieben wurde.

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible.

Dad reckoned there was a rational explanation for everything, even things that made no sense at all. UFOs, ghosts, God - they're just the names people came up with for stuff they haven't worked out yet.

I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.

It's the only thing that's never been tried.

At that moment a word47 issued from the height. As Judas was standing there, he saw how the word came [down]. He asked the word, "Why have you come down?

Age is real life is short. It's foolhardy to deny it. We grow up, our bodies grow frail, death is coming. There's so much I want to do! There's a whole world out there I havent seen, ppl I havent met and who havent know me. God, there 're a million books I want to read. I dont want to sleep... I want to be awake. This is my life - I want to live it

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

Not a word of what he said remains in my mind, but I remember going away with the impression that it was possible to live without knowing everything, after all, and that I might even try to be happy in a world full of riddles.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.

One unfortunate Greek ambassador at about the same time is known to have fallen into an open Roman sewer and broken his leg – and made the most of his convalescence by giving introductory lectures on literary theory to a curious audience.

Who could be so indifferent or so idle that they did not want to find out how, and under what kind of political organisation, almost the whole of the inhabited world was conquered and fell under the sole power of the Romans in less than fifty-three years, something previously unparalleled?' Who indeed?

What's that kid's story?" Hayden asked.

He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear him first. She could go down later.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." ? Mary Catherine Bateson