Quotes About Curiosity

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.

There they go. Look at those dogs go! Why are they going fast in those cars? What are they going to do? Where are those dogs going?

I continue to work with the materials I have, the materials I am made of. With feelings, beings, books, events, and battles, I am omnivorous. I would like to swallow the whole earth. I would like to drink the whole sea.

I do not seek. I find.

What they don't know is that we all belong to the places we've never even been before. If there's any kind of legitimate nostalgia, it's for everything we've never seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we haven't read, all that food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only kind of real nostalgia there is.

You don't have to be a philosopher; you just have to want to know who you are

I love science fiction.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind more securely." —ALBERT EINSTEIN, GERMAN THEORETICAL PHYSICIST

How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. But we have to ask with an open heart, with no idea of what the answer will be.

I wonder what he sees, a chapter from a book I have never read.

Unpredictability is the best part of life," he had said. "The surprise of who or what might be around the corner, it's what keeps us going.

have always needed to know.

Sophie hadn't tought an erect penis would be so big. Or so hard. Or so silky. "I thought it would be like a hot-dog.

Javier to Hunter: "How long you and Dargangelo been married?

This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing. There is no way to finish, and perhaps that shouldn't be the goal.

At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [ . . . ] This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing

The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an "anti-library," a vast collection of books he had not read, believing that one's personal trove should contain as much of what you don't know as possible. Some

We all love remembering the satisfaction, the joy, the almost giddy exhilaration of seeing the world of letters, and as a consequence the entire world, open up to us.

Books are how cautious kids get to experience a kind of secondhand rebellion, a safe way to go off the rails.

They were staring at the gleaming guadrangle as though awaiting an oracle's reply.

In the East, things were better. More brotherhood, communication, curiosity. Primordial landscapes, more sacred places.

La Cortina di ferro lì a due passi inquietava suo padre ma non lui che nei cartelli con scritto STAATGRENZE vedeva solo l'inizio di un mondo. Semplicemente una linea che Dio aveva disegnato sulla Terra apposta perché lui l'oltrepassasse.

Il libro è come il padre: ti svezza, ti irrobustisce, ti fa crescere dentro la curiosità del mondo ma è anche una trappola che ti spinge ad accontentarti delle meraviglie che contiene. Per partire devi a volte rinnegare il padre, perché non puoi affrontare il mondo col suo peso sulle spalle.