Quotes About Curiosity

Jaded! With all this around us". He waved an all- embracing arm at the pikes and fells and howes on every side. "We would never see a hundredth of it if we went out every Sunday for the next ten years".

I had too much power, I thought. I might consume him out of my own curiosity simply because I could. I could stay or go. He could not. He had too much power, I thought. He could reject me. He could break me in two.

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

Betsy was impulsive in every area save one. Where men were concerned, she'd never ventured anything. Let others wear their hearts on their sleeves; let others chase after masculine attention. Betsy had more interesting pursuits.

The world is far bigger than we believe," he murmured. "What more could we see if we but looked?

He wanted to see the world through her eyes, where simple things like oak paneling and stone bridges were marvels.

You know a lot of things, Uncle,' Gillian said, patting him on the shoulder as if he were a noble steed. 'Learned form books,' Clay promised her. 'You'll know as much once you read more of them. In fact, you'll know more than I do, because new books are always being written.

There are two ways of looking at the sky;you can wonder why its blue or wonder what you can do with a blue sky!Learn to take the positive approach always.

There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries.

Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.

There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have a relationship with books in a library whether you've come specifically to read them or not.

Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else.

Of all sexual aberrations perhaps the most curious is chastity.

La curiosité l'avait désormais enchaîné.

Pourquoi cet absurde besoin de savoir ? Et si les hommes veulent être heureux, qu'ils se chargent eux-mêmes de leur bonheur !

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

On the other hand, when too much time is occupied in traveling, we become strangers to our native country; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of those of the present.

Mais lorsqu'on emploie trop de temps à voyager, on devient enfin étranger en son pays; et lorsqu'on est trop curieux des choses qui se pratiquoient aux siècles passés, on demeure ordinairement fort ignorant de celles qui se pratiquent en celui-ci.

Je donnerais tout ce que je sais pour la moitié de ce que je ne sais pas.

il est curieux de voir à quelles extravagantes rêveries peut donner lieu une science aussi « positive » que veut l'être l'astronomie moderne.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

She stopped by an empty field, the soil abandoned, gone to mustard weed and grass. Lush bundles of crimson clover lined the fence. At the far end was a cluster of trees. As always, her eyes sought movement at the edge of the woods.