Quotes About Curiosity

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.

Children are born pantheists. They see reality unshaped by culture or language. The whole world seems divine to them, full of mystery and power.

I have seen worse things than ghosts, and if one were to appear to me, I should have so many questions to ask of it that it would have no time to groan and moan and shake its chains.

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.

No. no I didn't mean anything by it. I was just wondering why you called him June Bug. That's all." "That's what everyone calls him." They slowed where the smaller kids could keep up and after a good mile and a half, stopped and sat on the river bank resting. After getting a drink of water, they started on. An almost un-audible sound vibrated up the river.

Timeo hominem unius libri. 'I fear the man of one book.' It is attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

Sometimes silence is the best question.

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

We sit restless, on a fickle edge always looking for something new yet wary of anything different.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

Education is a place where we ask, 'Did you get the answers right?' as opposed to, 'What did you learn?

Sometimes the questions are more important than the answers, especially when you do not know what the answers are. I didn't give a shit either way.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous.

This "mind-mindedness" should be apparent in the way we think about and talk to the one we want to help and on how we think about and talk to each other. It is about curiosity and flexibility. It is about how we deal with crises and how we reflect about them. It is about supervision, exercises, role-play and video. It is about a minimum goal of common understanding, good management and a good working milieu.

Mentalizing virtuously means being authentically interested and curious in exploring the richness of possible realities. Active questioning expresses curiosity, but should not be expected to yield an unequivocal answer, but progress towards a conceptualization of alternatives (Skårderud and Fonagy 2012

Good mentalizing refers to mental and relational strengths as curiosity, perspective taking, forgiveness, reflective contemplation, a trusting attitude, humility, playfulness , willingness to assume responsibility and accept accountability and being aware of one's impact on others (Bateman and Fonagy 2016

Ursula believes that it was her habit of reading these cuttings that gave her a head start with her education.

The weird part was that Gin kind of wanted the woman to suspect that something was going on. The best part of being up to no good is when people know you're up to no good, but can't do a thing about it.

When you get right down to it, we don't ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there's mystery, there's hope.

Were archaeologists really such a sex-starved lot as all that? Did pigs really sweat?

In the days before people asked questions of every innocent thing, before this relentless need to name, to label, to categorize. People had understood that life might be rich, complicated, ambiguous.

Riven peeked into the wagon. "You show me what you can do with those balls when I see you again, yes?" "Yes," Elden peeped.