Quotes About Curiosity

Ser menino é estar ceio de céu por cima.

Segredos são fascinantes porque foram feitos para serem revelados.

É que há perguntas que não podem ser dirigidas às pessoas, mas à vida. Pergunte à vida, senhor. Mas não a este lado da vida. Porque a vida não acaba do lado dos vivos. Vai para além, para o lado dos falecidos. Procura desse outro lado da vida, senhor.

On one occasion, someone asked a famous American musician, Ben Harper, this question: "We've heard you now have a new drummer in your band. Tell me something: is he black?" And Harper replied: "I don't know, I've never asked him.

A escola foi para mim como um barco: me dava acesso a outros mundos. Contudo, aquele ensinamento não me totalizava.

Porque o Pintalgato chegava ao poente e espreitava o lado de lá. Namoriscando o proibido, seus olhos, pirilampiscavam.

Quem viveu pregado a um só chão não sabe sonhar outros lugares.

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

The great ideas arise when you give freedom," declared the Rockefeller Foundation's Warren Weaver—"freedom to think, freedom from other pressures—to individuals of great intellectual capacity . . . and let them be motivated primarily by their curiosity to find out how nature operates.

The best problem-finders demonstrate intellectual curiosity, embrace systemic thinking, and exhibit a healthy dose of paranoia.

She was a novel whose plot became more interesting as I delved deeper into the book.

If you don't ask why, you'll never be attacked or criticized. No one is going to go after you or your family. But if you don't ask why, nothing, not a damn thing, is ever going to change. I think that's the difference between philanthropy and activism. Philanthropy is this kind of life-saving work. Activism is when you ask why this work needs to be done in the first place.

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be.

use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you're doing, you'll do great.

And if I can't get excited about whatever that something else is, I really have trouble doing good work as a designer. To me, the conclusion is inescapable: the more things you're interested in, the better your work will be.

To be continued ….

old woman said just as the machine let out a loud honking sound that could only be described as a fart. "Just as I thought, it's from a giant beanstalk.

Girls don't come to the Barbizon for answers, Laura... They come to find out what questions they need to be asking.

Lucas] was most famous for his short, best-selling book on fossils, "Animals of the Past: An Account of Some of the Creatures of the Ancient World", in which he showed his gift for enlivening the driest science. Apologizing for using Latin scientific names, he wrote: 'The reader may perhaps sympathize with the old lady who said the discovery of all these strange animals did not surprise her so much as the fact that anyone should know their names when they were found.

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

He took as well as gave, but what he gave was unique. He had a curious precision of statement, a delicate flavour of humour, and a trick of small gestures to illustrate his meaning, which were peculiar to himself. The effect cannot be reproduced, but I remember how in discussing the wars of the future he said: "A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle" — his upraised hand and precise face conjuring up a vivid and grotesque picture.

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.