Quotes About Curiosity

Psychologically [the proliferation of] silent reading emboldened the reader because it placed the source of his curiosity completely under personal control.

As children we accept magic as a normal part of life. Everything seems rooted in it, everything conspires in magic terms.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

We have got ethical in so many places I begin to wish I had not given up geography at school.

The answer I found was in a question: 'Why not?' because 'Why not?' stopped you from asking yourself 'Why?'.

O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is All cannot be sufficient unto itself!

El dolor es siempre pregunta, y el placer, respuesta

Ce qui m'intéressait était l'érudition : elle est un « jeu de vérité » amusant, qui découvre, déchiffre, explique ou explicite l'inconnu ou le méconnu ; elle est donc prête à croire que toute « vérité » reçue a des chances d'être fausse, au risque de déplaire, de mettre l'opinion au défi.

Embrace training and explore every opportunity it opens for your mind to learn, I'm a great believer of Lifelong Learning.

There is little doubt that those who get the most from life are those who look for the wonder in even the smallest things they do. Cultivate this skill and you'll find peace and satisfaction as well.

Constant learning is the dream of the wise; stupidity however is the history of mankind. I am sure that one day the younger generation will be ready to read books again and will wonder why they didn't enjoy them before.

I've just begin to realize that the capacity to be interested is a luxury, you know? It gets handed down like property.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

It feels important to go everywhere one can and see all there is to see and try to understand it.

I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they had and how they loved or hurt each other on any given day, and if they were happy, and whether they thought happiness was a sustainable thing.

I remembered running for miles looking for an occupied warthog hole with arap Maina, and then stooping to crinkle paper outside the mouth of its den. This was what you did to call out the pig, the noise working to aggravate the animal in some way I didn't understand but rarely saw fail.

I felt a sense of anticipation of being on the verge of something interesting.

When I turned to leave the groom to his work, I saw that D's ranch manager had been watching us. His name was Boy Long, and he was exotic-looking for these parts, with jet-black hair and a single gold hoop in one ear. His particular flair made me think of a pirate. "What's in the tincture?" he wanted to know. "Nothing unusual." He looked me up and down. "I don't believe you, but you can keep your secret." A

For better for for worse I was born a traveler, wanting to go everywhere and see everything.