Quotes About Curiosity

He read many books, he looked at paintings, he went to the movies. In the summer he watched baseball on television in the winter he went to the opera. More than anything else, however, what he liked to do was walk. Nearly every day, rain or shine, hot or cold, he would leave his apartment to walk through the city—never really going anywhere, but simply going wherever his legs happened to take him.

if a child is not allowed to enter the imaginary, he will never come to grips with the real.

If everyone keeps asking you the same questions, maybe you have to come up with new answers just to stay awake.

We don't want to know when we will die or when the people we love will betray us....we're hungry to know the dead before they were dead, to acquaint ourselves with the dead as living beings.

The real question is not where do ideas come from but where do they go.

ANOTHER MOTIVATION FOR activities such as mountain climbing is curiosity about one's own capacities.

I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.

The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".

We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Why did he pick me? There were five other laps present, all of them more friendly than mine. It's that sort of coincidental behavior of cats that upsets people. It raises the question: did he know I was the guy who had to be won over? But won over to what?

Do you think there's intelligent life in space?' He grunted. 'Mum always says they'll be just like us. But I'd hate it if they were just like us.

Pity,' said Costain. 'I've always wanted to be working on a case where the dots on a map formed a pattern.

That would be an actual miracle," said Lizzie. "I never was sure what I thought about those.

Magic let you jump over the "why" and make use of what was hidden, all from the comfort of your kitchen sink.

since I got here I've had a bit of a look for where the music's coming from, and I can't find it. And I have the nose of a bloodhound. In my pocket.

To believe in and reach for the beyond was Lizzie's thing, and it suited her and was beautiful for her, an opinion of Autumn's which she didn't think Lizzie had ever quite believed she held. To ask the beyond some serious questions was Autumn's thing.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes.

strangely at his companions as the full

My brain is open.

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.