Quotes About Curiosity

Back when Deenie was in middle school, she was always having sleepovers. All those girly thumping and trills on the other side of his bedroom wall confused and annoyed and stirred him, so he'd sneak down to the basement and page through a mildewed 1985 Playboy he'd found under the laundry chute. The pictures were startling and beautiful, but he always felt ashamed after, standing at the laundry sink where his mom scrubbed his uniform.

He shook his head, again with that smile that didn't show his teeth. It was the smile of a man who hadn't been surprised in a very long time but who felt like he was finally going to be surprised again and was enjoying it.

You looked like you knew a thing or two, she told me later. But were ready to learn a lot more.

The place was hissing with stories told behind hands as she walked into the place.

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.

You must tell me the truth. I've seen you sneak out. I know it must be where you go.

Diarmid shrugged. How does he know anything? He's playing with lightning. I'm thinking tis best not to question him.

He'd never met a woman who blushed as much as she did. He didn't know anyone could blush as much as she did. It fascinated him.

care desperately in a perversely curious-about-your-sex-life way," Merrick said. "You never tell me anything about your personal life. You don't hit on me. You ignore me when I hit on you. You keep our work relationship professional no matter how hard I try to make it unprofessional. It's like you have integrity or something, and quite frankly, I'm sick of it.

How could I have lived my entire life without knowing this man? His eyes are gray and green, and I smooth my fingertips over the arches of his brows. I touch the sleekness of the hair that falls in front of his ears.

Observation is a great joy." To write one's observations, record such wonderings, the greatest joy of all.

All great acquisitions come from voluntary thought" was Elizabeth's guiding principle. She would not cultivate any motive for learning in her students besides curiosity, claiming that study for the sake of reward or in fear of punishment produced "superficial rather than profound" knowledge.

Stink thought he knew everything now that he was starting second grade.

wrestling with a curiosity about country living that seemed strangely akin to a homophobic person "struggling with same-sex attraction." As much as I wanted to be a creature of the city, as much as I'd organized my entire life around the overpriced, undersized vagaries of Manhattan living, I sometimes found myself wanting desperately to live on a farm, or at least near one.

My not being a father had kept me young, had kept my curiosity awake.

As a woman who chooses to be childless, I generally have just one problem: other adults. Living in a culture where women are assumed to prioritize motherhood above all else and where a woman's personal choices are often considered matters of public discussion means everyone thinks they have the right to discuss my body and my choices, so anyone who is curious about my lack of spawn feels the right to march right on over and ask me about it.

A beautiful idea is a beautiful door; it invites you to enter inside!

A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!

Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.

As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!

Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world!

Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!