Quotes About Curiosity

Curiosity is a highly undervalued skill because of the value it makes other people feel.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie

You can be the smoothest, funniest person in the room, but if you aren't interested and curious about your conversation partner, there simply won't be a connection. I've

Making a decision to be genuinely curious and interested in your conversation partner is one of the keys to allowing them to feel comfortable enough to connect to you beyond a superficial level.

Everyone has something to teach you, fascinate you with, and amaze you with. Be committed to truly learning about the people you speak with, and wonder what they truly are like.

we seek to understand, not necessarily to find a complete and final solution.

If you want people to be interested in you, make sure you are interested in them first.

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How enjoyable, how very enjoyable and luxurious it is, suddenly to emerge from the stern labyrinth of fact onto these dawn-lit uplands of surmise!

As we shook hands I wondered idly what her urine looked like.

The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none.

I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen to a man: several women turned round as he passed them.

Depuis l'enfance et l'adolescence, j'éprouvais une très vive curiosité et une attirance particulière pour tout ce qui concernait les mystères de Paris.

Knowledge is dangerous.

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it." [ Patrick Ness slams library cuts ( The Guardian , 23 June 2011)]

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don't know how to find it, if you don't even know where to begin to look. - on librarians

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky's too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?' 'And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there's so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don't get any work done because we're all looking at it too much?

Haven't you ever felt like there has to be more? Like there's more out there somewhere, just beyond your grasp, if you could only get to it..

He didn't want to go and look. But at the same time, a part of him wanted to look more than anything.

Harry leaned forward, his eyes flashing. "I see nothing.

She was reading a book on his pad, he saw, her strange attraction to the written words of his people still unabated, still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines on a page. It was a reduction, as she saw it, when expansion seemed so much more natural. And yet here she was again, spending time decoding a language not her own.

You know. And if you don't know, you don't want to.