Quotes About Curiosity

As one focuses on any segment of reality, a potentially infinite range of opportunities for action-physical, mental, or emotional-is revealed for our skills to engage with. There is never a good excuse for being bored.

If you are interested in something you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, you will become interested in it.

If one reads the biographies of physicists like Bohr, Heisenberg, Chandrashekhar, and Bethe, one gets the impression that without hikes in the mountains and the vision of night skies their science would not have amounted to much.

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

My spirit welled up in its joy because I asked myself "why?" The dread key to all true knowledge is "why?

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

After 'cat', Lilah next learned 'flower'. Flowers (scrunch up nose as if sniffing) were everywhere, first only outside on plants, but soon she generalized to flowers on her clothes or her shoes, or in pictures in books and magazines. I wanted to hook up wires and do experiments and comparisons and studies to understand it all. 'You want to do what?' Diane would say. But really, who wouldn't?

But figuring out where to point the telescopes in the first place and why you're doing it is much harder.

When you were a little kid, remember how hard it was to get a cookie? Way in the back, unless your mom was really mean: Then they'd be on top of the refrigerator. Nowhere, any place on a package of Oreos does it say, "Keep out of reach of small children." Where was the Liquid Drano? Under the sink, right next to the rest of the poisons.

EDUCATION, Education, Your Education Never Stops.

Could it hurt to take a look? The answer was yes, of course. It's always yes. But I went anyway.

Continue to dig, continue to uncover the delights hidden within yourself, within the experience of life, within relationships and unions with others. Explore it all with the wonder, amazement, and curiosity of a child, even when those things that are uncovered are not desirable, for it is in the discovery of them that you can set them free.

Tame the jungles and you will find a world eager to fill your every cup, coffer, and bathtub.

Aren't you curious? When did it stop working? Why did it stop working? Did we bring out the worst in each other? Was it just one persons fault or both of us? Aren't these questions everyone wants to ask when they split up with someone?

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

Thanks, Neil," Emma said. "So, what do you want to do next?" she asked DeMarco. "Find out what Stephanie Taliaferro Hernandez has on Quinn." "And how do you propose to do that?" "I have no idea.

Alice in Wonderland

A few years later, my wife and I were visiting Iran. Why? Because our idea of a vacation is most people's idea of a hostage situation. If refugees want to get out of a place, we want to go there.

gentle interrogation. "Tell

Briana watched him for a moment and then looked back out her window. "You don't know what you're missing, Kyle.

Amazing, Heather thought, looking back at the email message. Who was this incredible, gifted person?

Women only love those that they don't know.

The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel.

According to one of these terrible stories, the source of Daubmannus' erstwhile youthful cheerfulness and spirit, despite his affliction, was the fact that, hunched and bent as he was, he could reach down and suck at himself, and so he learned that the male seed tastes like a woman's milk. This was how he kept renewing himself.