Quotes About Curiosity

Don't be afraid to explore; Without exploration there are no discoveries. Don't be afraid of partial solutions; Without the tentative there is no accomplishment.

El retrato de ese momento explica qué llena la vida del explorador: lo que importa no es tanto el destino como acercarse a él.

I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.

How darkness infects those among us who can't resist a juicy tale.

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.

I drove to the doctor's office as if I was starring in a movie Phillip was watching -- windows down, hair blowing, just one hand on the wheel. When I stopped at red lights, I kept my eyes mysteriously forward. Who is she? people might have been wondering. Who is that middle-aged woman in the blue Honda?

I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what is left.

After a minute a willowy woman with a baby boy came out. The baby was swinging a crystal from a string. I checked to see if he and I had a special connection that was greater than his bond with his mother. We didn't.

I feel into the eyes of every person I passed on the street.

Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy.

Food seemed impossibly strange. Children thought I was a child and tried to play with me, but I could neither play nor work, I could only wonder why. Why do people live at all.

Romance. My utter lack of friends who shared my interests. Romance. The Soul. Romance. Life on other planets. Romance.

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

Cuando era pequeño cazaba mariposas, atrapaba un podalirio o un zapatero e insertaba en su cuerpo vermicular un alfiler, tal y como había visto hacer. Clavaba el alfiler en un corcho y observaba cómo seguían aleteando durante varias horas, cómo se aferraban con sus seis patas filiformes al corcho poroso. Con esa misma crueldad y placer te clavaría en estas páginas.

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

We know very well what there is under other people's tails, but we cannot live without sniffing.

Thanks, Ms. Liberty! Is that a sari you're wearing? I hope not.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

opposite: I believe the rest of school (indeed, the rest of life) should become more like kindergarten.

Finding the answer to an eternal question creates bigger questions.

He couldn't believe that there were so many books in the world. Who could possibly read them all?