Quotes About Curiosity

Cécile lo dijo con un extraño orgullo, a pesar de que a todas luces no sabía nada de esos escritores, y es curioso el orgullo que sienten los padres por los estudios de sus hijos, incluso y sobre todo cuando no entienden nada de ellos, es un hermoso sentimiento humano, pensó Paul.

La chispa de curiosidad que subsistía en mi forma de mirar el mundo se apagaría pronto y sería como las piedras, con el añadido de un vago sufrimiento. Mi carrera no había sido un fracaso, al menos en términos comerciales: si agredes al mundo con suficiente violencia, él te acaba escupiendo su cochina pasta; pero nunca, nunca te devuelve la alegría.

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, after I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.

Il m'a regardé comme si je sortais d'une boîte de Cracker Jacks.

It's hard to guess why that range is not called upon.

I picked out a question with care. You have to be careful with strangers; questions can reveal as much as answers" -Eve

Tourists see invisible things. Sometimes their point of view eluded him. By now, he was often the first in the group to raise his camera: to a roadside shrine or a sunset, to a buffalo plowing a paddy, ribs curved like a boat. But why were the others laughing at a billboard advertising Perlwite soap? What was fascinating about two village women grinding chilies on a stone? The dust of familiarity still lay in patches on the scenes through which he moved.

Wanderlust, on which the Wayfarer fed, was only lust, after all, lustily excited by penetration and veils.

George noticed her feet again. They were nuggety and rectangular, like a young child's feet—even the sparkly turquoise nail polish belonged to a child. He wondered if Pippa bothered with right and left shoes.

Pienso que es muy importante (al menos lo era para mí) que si vais a enseñar a la gente a hacer observaciones, tenéis que demostrar que de ellas puede surgir algo maravilloso.

Una de las maneras de hacer que la ciencia se detenga sería hacer experimentos únicamente en las áreas de las que se conoce la ley.

I never knew there was a whole denomination as full of questions as I was.")

Reading is a way to quench your thirst for knowledge.

You really shouldn't drink potions if you don't know what they do. - Aunt Polly

Everything looks new, but then that is the nature of science.

He's always asking: 'Is that new? I haven't seen that before.' It's like, Why don't you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

Maar wie zijn wij om vragen te stellen over de wijze waarop de Hertenstam met de dingen omgaat?' zei ze net zo uit de hoogte als Durrain. Hij grijnsde breed. 'Ja, dat zou een dom lid van de Ravenstam zoals jij niet moeten doen.' Ze gaf hem een por in zijn ribben.

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

Are you following me?" He asked. "Us?" I was the first to speak. "Um, maybe. Hi there. How are you tonight?" He looked at me like I might be a bit crazy.

i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

The moon is, in fact, a hole in the sky. Consider.

I've never stopped learning.