Quotes About Curiosity

One of the girls saw her, then did a double-take. Her eyes sparkled. Not a bright sparkle, but a dull, dark sparkle, like the twinkling of a lantern at the bottom of a deep well. Here's something fun, her eyes said. Here's something freakish. Let's play with it and see if we can make it cry.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

Don't swallow a scythe if your stomach isn't curved

When I was ten, I began to notice girls and had finally figured out that the bumps under sweaters weren't hidden grapefruit. Now they were something to be admired, at least at a distance.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

La curiosité naît de la jalousie

Through the green slats of their private look-out post they could quiz the adult world, queer mixture of stupidity and power, getting on with its incomprehensible affairs, unconscious of spies in the undergrowth.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

I read with a kind of curious terror, learning that words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the unimaginable true.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

Labels? Okay, fine. I'm bisensual. Heteroflexible. And life-curious. That about covers it.

I want to know everything; my curiosity is boundless

experiments, some of them rather gruesome. On one occasion, he fed two prisoners the same large dinner, sent one to bed and the other on a headlong hunt, then cut them open to see which had better digested the meal. (It was the sleeper.)

Because we are forced to learn about numbers and operations with numbers while we are still too young to appreciate them—a preparation for life which hardly excites our interest in the future—we grow up believing that numbers are drab and uninteresting. But the number system warrants attention not only as the basis of mathematics, but because it contains weighty and beautiful ideas which lend themselves to powerful applications.

mathematicians of that century, like those of most great periods, were the very physicists and astronomers who raised the questions,

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Baganda girls will zoom your profile pic Just to see if you have money in your pockets.

The time when Christ was 33, so I could see if he really got up from the grave. Or maybe I'd go back to the time of Cleopatra, before Marc Antony got tight with her. I'd try to hit on her first.

Bilmek hayatta kalmaktir. [...] Unutmayin, ne kadar cok sey bilirseniz yasama sansiniz artar. Hem sonra ogrenmeyi bir sanat, bir yasama bicimi haline getirmeniz gerekir, bunun sirriysa, ogrenmenin ayni zamanda bir haz, bir zevk oldugunu anlamaktan gecer. Ogrenmenin hazzi olmadan insan tamamlanamaz. Bakin cevrenizdeki bircok insanin yarim kalmasi bu yuzdendir." - Moottah