Quotes About Curiosity

No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of dilatoriness but of eagerness, anticipation.

In proportion to our faith will be our desire for the increase of knowledge.

Therefore we set out diligently to explore and map these untrodden regions of the mind.

If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

there's just so many goddamn things we never get to know. We're not entitled to all the truth.

He asks me if I'd like to see the apartment and I say 'Anytime,' and he says, 'Sure, why don't you come up now, then?' I can't think of a reason not to. There's nothing waiting for me at home but my refrigerator, my laptop, and death.

He clicked through a dozen of them until he found a picture of a dark, curly haired woman, ample, smiling, appearing much younger than sixty, so familiar-looking that he was immediately attracted to her simply because he found familiarity, rare these days, so comforting. He opened her ad and realized he was staring at a picture of his wife,

Once she was deeply fascinated with her parents. She had craved knowledge about them. As a child she fiddled with locked doors and drawers, got down on her knees and dug through closets, lingered outside her father's study during business calls until her mother shooed her off. Fifteen years ago, she had at last recognized the pointlessness in trying to uncover the truth from a man who had never actually been convicted of anything, and a woman who had sealed shut her emotions decades ago.

This is the danger of reading. One never knows what will be stumbled upon, what old embers may leap again to flame. p 241

He says he knows someone isn't from the same race as he when that person looks at his library and asks, 'Have you read all of these?' A true book lover knows that, no, he hasn't read them all. It's about the process, it's about when the right reference comes up, you have the right book to go to; it's about never being without something to occupy your eyes and mind.

There's time enough, though. Time enough to learn everything about one another. That's the adventure. And the longer it takes just means we'll never get bored.

Ako s ne?im ?ovjek nije upoznat, mora pitati kako bi nau?io. To je zaista puno bolje nego pretvarati se da znaš više nego što znaš samo zato jer se u svojoj umišljenosti ne želiš prikazati neukim.

Dare to open the door for see the differences in life.

We all feel not Comfortable on the same place.

There will Always be Something Mysterious in our Life, so be Ready for It

Curiosity is a sickness of want to understanding.

Look in different places is as food For our thoughts. Kijken op verschillende plaatsen is als voedsel voor onze gedachten.

Ancora imparo (I am still learning). —Michelangelo, at age 87

You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doin' to watch the Almighty go about his business.

Now nearly all the mysteries have gone, and there is scarcely an unknown country left to peer at.)

true. On more than one occasion I have asked myself: "If I were ninety-five years old, on my deathbed, and looking back over my life, how would I wish I had used this body, this intelligence, and this system of energy? What did I want to do with this lifetime?" These moments make me aware of the importance of using time to consciously accomplish what I feel is valuable, and to experience those things that I am deeply curious about.

Alice twists a lock of her hair as she sucks on her straw and swivels back and forth on her seat. The shush of the ball bearings sounds like the sea to her, like waves retreating through the sand. She is a thousand miles away. I know this, but I'm not going to let her know I know.

Hansi, after a day or two's distant politeness, had taken her by the hand and led her to a row of curiously-shaped pebbles in a secret hiding-place between the wood-stacks. "Meine Sammlung," he said briefly. "My election," echoed Toby's voice in her memory. Her heart turned over: how could there be this ridiculous talk of war, when little boys in all countries collected stones, dodged cleaning their teeth, and hated cauliflower?

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