Quotes About Curiosity

Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious and compassionate can take you out of your ego and edge your soul towards wonder.

There are four kinds of people in this world: •those who make things happen •those who watch things happen •those who wonder what happened •those who don't know that anything happened! I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be first on that list.

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Most children suffer from a crippling lack of stimulation. The brain is like any other muscle; use it, and it develops. Ignore it, and it atrophies.

Questions are an under-used piece of communication in our culture.

The outlines of birds and beasts and sailing ships could still be seen in the apothecary's attic in Grantham, along with the drawings of men and mathematical symbols. But the boy who who had made them was gone. He had taken his notebook with him: his secret world of star names and tawny lions and golden ink made from quicksilver.

When your head is filled with things that other people don't seem to give much thought to - chymistry, star names, mandrake root, mathematicall magick - it can be hard to make friends. Being short, secretive, and smarter than everybody else doesn't help.

Pioneers do not as a rule settle for the comfortable corners of life, and Maria Sklodowska was no exception.

Ain't you goin to ax me?" Maureen asked. Ruby snatched her head around to face Maureen. "Lamb, you know anything about a commotion out here?" Ruby cooed. "I don't know nothin about no commotion, but I know somethin about that man yall kilt." Virgil

And what if it were only a story?" said Mrs. May quickly, "so long as it was a good story? Keep your sense of wonder, child, and don't be so literal. Anything we haven't experienced for ourselves sounds like a story. All we can ever do is sift the evidence.

Que mundo! Kilómetros y kilómetros, cosas y más cosas, un cúmulo de riquezas inimaginables..., ¡y ella podía haberse quedado sin conocerlo!

Here she was on the other side of the grating—here she was at last, on the outside—looking in!

I stared up at the sky with zero curiosity about the Kingdom of Heaven because the physical world was plenty.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled— to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.

Jack. "It's a picture of these woods!

I wish we could go there," he said. The wind started to blow. Jack looked out one last time at the Chinese couple. They seemed to be glowing like stars.

And millions of books," said Annie.

It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold of chaos.

People like me are blamed for curiosity; having lost part of our lives, we are apt to fill the gap from the lives of others. In this I am like the rest, and make no pretences.

Either we shall find what we are seeking, or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Alexander)'Sometimes I forget all this for months on end. Sometimes I think of it day and night. Sometimes I think, unless I find out the truth of it, I shall go mad.' (Hephaistion)'That's stupid. You've got me now. Do you think I'd let you go mad?

If you can trigger the Lazarus reflex in a dead person, why not the orgasm reflex?

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.