Quotes About Curiosity

I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.

Don't ask!" said Bevin. "If you ask questions, you'll get answers you don't want.

Você acha que a história é verdadeira? Ela o fitou, com interesse, e ele se perdeu naqueles lindos olhos escuros. - Não sei - respondeu. - Sempre fico pensando se as histórias são verdadeiras ou não. A maioria das pessoas não liga, simplesmente gosta delas.

Les gens du peuple dévisageaient toujours avec une curiosité fascinée les enfants qui seraient un jour leurs suzerains. Dans ce tribunal chargé de punir la violence, la rapine et la malhonnêteté, ces deux garçons innocents faisaient songer à des agneaux égarés dans une porcherie.

Gwenda sat with her back against a hornbeam tree and studied Wulfric and Annet with the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows.

Qué nos ocurrió?

Bien, Francis; ¿me habéis traído a vuestro gemelo? —preguntó al fin.

She was proud to have a son who could ask such a thoughtful and challenging question.

tenía encima de la nevera. —Puede que esto te resulte algo más entretenido.

He was twelve years old, and he sought ringing certainties. He would have to learn slowly, like everyone else.

solo porque alguien hiciera una pregunta no significaba que hubiera que responder.

What don't I know?

Caput tuum in ano est.

The same baby at Kingsbridge Priory would cause a stir. On the other hand, what was wrong with that? It was not a sin to give people something to talk about.

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

It's fall coming, I kept thinking, fall coming; just like that was the strangest thing ever happened. Fall. Right outside here it was spring a while back, then it was summer, and now it's fall-that's sure a curious idea.

I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack.

Whoever comes in the door is usually disappointing, but there is always a chance otherwise. And when a key hits the lock, all the heads come up like there's strings on them.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

How," the moon whispered, "can you be sure it is lost? Until you try to find it?

With eyes like he's been to the edge and looked over .

By the bounteous bottom of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I'm looking forward to this, Our Kandar!

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.