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Quotes About Curiosity

There are so many interesting times we could have visited.
~ Octavia E. Butler
It scares me how many things I've got to learn. How will I learn them?
~ Octavia E. Butler
Earthseed Cast on new ground Must first perceive That it knows nothing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
What is it in young boys that makes them want to wander off alone and get killed? They get two chin hairs and they're trying to prove they're men.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I would never have been a good scientist—my attention span was too short for that.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Normal,' I muttered. 'I wonder what that is.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Stupid faith was good. Thinking and questioning were bad.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Hell, I think a lot of things. And I know—I know!—that no matter how many things I think of, they won't be enough. Every time I go outside, I try to imagine what it might be like to live out there without walls, and I realize I don't know anything.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I mean to learn everything I can while I can,' I said. 'If I find myself outside, maybe what I've learned will help me live long enough to learn more.
~ Octavia E. Butler
discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation.
~ Octavia E. Butler
you think they want to wash?" I asked Harry and Zahra.
~ Octavia E. Butler
questions more readily than an adult. I looked at him. He looked back, curious and unafraid. He was not Rufus. I could see
~ Octavia E. Butler
Até mesmo um pouco de ficção pode ser útil [...] se você não precisar dessas informações, elas não serão prejudiciais. Você só vai saber um pouco mais do que antes.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Even people who can't read are impressed by books.
~ Octavia E. Butler
The questions little children ask drive you insane because they never stop. But they also make you think.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
~ Og Mandino
God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
~ Ogden Nash
So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.
~ Ogden Nash
ADVENTURES OF ISABEL Isabel
~ Ogden Nash
and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books, as I thought they did; and so to learn how all things had a beginning: for that purpose I have often taken up a book, and have talked to it, and then put my ears to it, when alone, in hopes it would answer me; and I have been very much concerned when I found it remained silent.
~ Unknown
I had often seen my master and Dick employed in reading; and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books, as I thought they did; and so to learn how all things had a beginning: for that purpose I have often taken up a book, and have talked to it, and then put my ears to it, when alone, in hopes it would answer me; and I have been very much concerned when I found it remained silent.
~ Unknown
Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.
~ Unknown
If the answer's not in front of you or behind you, remember there are four other directions to look.
~ Unknown