Quotes About Curiosity

She would push and push on that one question until a crack formed in the wall of her ignorance.

me, a homegrown detective, a private investigator of signs and coincidences. He evidently noticed my unease,

Izydor couldn't care less about either the Party or going to church. Now he needed time for thinking, remembering Ruta, for reading, for learning German, for writing letters, collecting stamps, staring at his skylight, and gradually, idly sensing the order of the universe.

Do not leave any unexplained, unnarrated situations, any closed doors; kick them down with a course.

I often crossed it inadvertently when out that way on my daily rounds. But I also liked to cross it on purpose, deliberately stepping to and fro. A dozen times, or several dozen times. I'd amuse myself like that for half an hour—playing the game of crossing the border. It gave me pleasure, because I could remember the time when it wasn't possible. I love crossing borders.

So he has found something he hadn't noticed before. He has to light a cigarette, he's so excited. He looks at that mysterious word, it will guide him now, he'll let it up with the wind like a kite and follow it. "Kairos," Kunicki reads, "Kairos," repeating it, unsure how it's pronounced. It has to be Greek, he thinks happily, Greek, and he dives into his bookshelves, but there's no Greek dictionary there, only Useful Latin Phrases, a

Children are soft and supple, open-minded and unpretentious.

By my final years at primary school I had realised that literature was more than just an ordinary pleasure. I could tell that reading opened entirely different worlds before me...

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

He felt the pull of investigation and the pull of escape, and swore with frustration.

who look on the world and the universe they are born in with quite other eyes. To

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'

Science is the topography of ignorance.

There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.

We had taken up aeronautics merely as a sport. We reluctantly entered upon the scientific side of it.

use questions to raise questions

No. You won't do. You've treated me nicely, yes, but only because you find me curious and amusing. It made me feel so lonely, somehow... I'm really just a foolish and useless person.

There are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes.

You've treated me nicely, yes, but only because you find me curious and amusing. It's made me feel so lonely, somehow.