Quotes About Curiosity

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

You been playin' with the Ouija board, Rags, honey?

Yes, of course," said Kinderman. "It's very strange. But then it leaves us

the meantime, I don't know who you are, but you

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

Johannes Meintjes… is one of the more articulate South Africans of his generation. A prolific painter, he is also a fluent author in both English and Afrikaans. With unresting curiosity about South African national and regional history, he seems blessedly free from political or racial bias, and when he writes of nations or persons in conflict is alert to what is good or bad on both sides.

Gee, I'm not used to looking at these without the meat on them!

...though many a gatherer has carried his basket through these diamond districts of the mind...

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.

What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

A writer lives at best, in a state of astonishment.

You would pluck out the heart of my mystery.

O brave new world,That has such people in't!

The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots, and wondersAt our quaint spirits.

No sooner met, but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

I rarely ask people about their health, because at my age people will be happy to tell you.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind.

And, while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

William Sleator

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.