Quotes About Curiosity

A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy...

He walked slowly up and down the rows, glancing at titles and authors, hoping to find something useful. He was so intent in his search that he failed to notice the dark, hooded figure that entered the archives and stood silently in the doorway, watching him

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

Jamie liked perspiration, a little bit of dirt, and complications.

Sixth graders had stopped asking Now what? and had started asking So what? She had not been sorry to retire when she did.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

A good Book, has no Ending...

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

and what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

dead says come with me he says(andwhyevernot)into the round well and see the kitten and the penny and the jackknife and the rosebug and you say Sure you say (like that) sure i'll come with you you say for i like kittens i do and jackknives i do and pennies i do and rosebugs i do

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." —E. E. Cummings

19. I wrote in my notebook that even if all the possible scientific questions are answered, our problem is still not touched at all.

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

Jennifer, I asked, what do you ever do besides read? She looked up at the sky and sighed and said very seriously, I think.

Finding a secret can make everything else unimportant, you know.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Change depends on the questions we ask. Always providing we are willing to ask them. And a t a certain point, I set out to find those questions.

Become at ease with the state of "not knowing.

Try a little experiment. Close your eyes and say to yourself: "I wonder what my next thought is going to be." Then become very alert and wait for the next thought. Be like a cat watching a mouse hole. What thought is going to come out of the mouse hole? Try it now.