Quotes About Curiosity

The seventy-four-gun Defence took advantage of the dark to have a closer look:

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.

You must learn to question everything. To wait before moving, to look before stepping, and to observe everything

Like so many other would-be students of the mind, I had gone to sea to see the world, only to discover that all I was seeing was sea. Not even that: I was down below decks, studying the engine room of mental life, with no clear sense of where the ship was steering.

one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions, which seem such a bore - all but the consuming desire for knowledge and understanding. That grows. - Aldous Huxley

Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.

I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal mournfulness. Is it deliberately sad? Are the horns saying, Be careful, stay away from this train or it will run you over and then people will grieve, and their grief will be as the inconsolable wail of this horn through the night?

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

But I never did manage to tell you because I could never quite put the words together to express something so complex and sordid and exciting and stupid,. I still wonder how that conversation might have gone.

something. "Mum," perhaps. Everyone is looking at her. Sixty people have turned to stare. Perhaps they'd

Japanophiles were people who just loved Japan without asking questions.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

Because with all that I read, all that I learn, I discover how much I do not know. Ideas batter me like hailstones. Questions but no answers. Who am I? Where am I from? Do I have a family?

But whatever our beliefs, this richness of understanding should be a cause for marvel and celebration.

Only the curious have something to find.

You don't know why, and I don't know why, but why not?

Whenever we come to a new place, I waylaid strangers and dragged their stories and songs and jokes from them before they ever had a chance to find out my name.

Want on legs," Gwladus said when she saw him. "Though for what, I don't know.

Tomorrow I'd start learning this city the way I liked best, by moving through it.

She would watch and learn. Find out why Paulinus was taking such an interest in her, the king's niece, why he seemed to want to persuade her of his god.

Just as I thought I was beginning to know this world and understand it, it throws more magic at me." "What's life without magic? Turn your magic into a song, share it with others." "You know I can't sing." "A story, then.