Quotes About Curiosity

Hild wasn't listening. He wondered what paths she walked in her head.

She looked at the bag, slitty-eyed as a cat by a mouse hole.

She is filled with a light she does not yet understand, my king.

I missed you showing me things, making them magic. So I decided to find them myself. Like this.

Peretur had never seen so many beasts living in so small a space; even closed, if she shut her eyes she could hear them, feel them, taste their curiosity.

Now when she spied on women and men she crept close and closer, closer than was safe, because she was drawn to the curve of a lip, the gleam of sweat on a throat, and she longed to feel the weigh of glossy hair on her skin.

It was a look Hild recognised: a cat watching a stunned mouse in no hurry to kill. Who was his smile for?

I was hungry for another viewpoint, to see Julia for the first time.

The girl could tell he did not like this man whose business was the uncanny.

I wanted to know about the woman who thought this was something I had done, but I wasn't in any particular hurry. Let her come to me.

Why deceive ourselves? Science has not answered a single important question.

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

Nicht nach der Wahrheit zu suchen ist ein Zeichen der Mittelmäßigkeit; doch es ist kein Zeichen der Größe, sie zu finden.

Whoever is curious about how to measure his stupidity should count the number of things that seem obvious to him.

I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our noses are good for nothing else.

Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one's usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.

Participate in fantasy. Be curious!

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.