Quotes About Curiosity

His expressions of psychological depression in his notebooks (such as "Every thing I have done seems to me blank and suspicious") doubtless lay behind brooding lines like these: The doubts of the daytime and the doubts of the nighttime.… the curious whether and how, Whether that which appears so is so.… Or is it all flashes and specks?

In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

You've got to wonder what Jesus was like at seventeen," Anne Lamott wrote. "They don't even talk about it in the Bible, he was apparently so awful.

Esta noche quiero escapar y meterme en la historia de alguien más.

In a letter thanking Pamela for the chart, Jarvis wrote, "People on the yard saw what I was doing, and they looked up, too. They passed the chart around and asked questions. I looked around and saw men from one side of the yard to the other all looking up to the sky. One of the rarest spectacles I've ever seen. Then I look over at the guards in the gun towers—they were looking up, too. Everyone just looking into the sky.

Hating the scientific method is hating learning.

Saying "I don't know" is not a flaw. It is a true and valid statement that does not take the totally illogical leap of "I don't know … therefore a god did it." It communicates the simple and reasonable proposition that we need to learn more.

Curiosity familiarized the cat with its surroundings so it wouldn't be surprised.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

J'ai lentement déshabillé son apparence pour savoir qui elle était. (Dix-huit ans, p.143)

I was looking for a book. A very particular book in a vast and wonderful library. I found what I was looking for. It hadn't been opened for quite a long time judging by the dust that coated the upper edge and by the way the paper had yellowed on all sides creeping toward the gutter. When I opened it, some loose pages different from those in the book fell onto the floor. I picked them up and noticed that they were covered with a text in a language I did not understand.

A veces, cuando algún profesor termina la explicación y pregunta si ha quedado alguna duda, Sylvia tiene ganas de levantar la mano y decir sí, ¿podría volver a empezar desde el principio?, pero desde el principio del principio, desde que nacemos, porque aún no he comprendido nada en estos casi dieciséis años de vida.

A college president I know keeps three books on his night table: the Bible, the Iliad, and Louis Auchincloss' 1964 novel The Rector of Justin. When I once asked him, "Why the novel?," he responded, "Because it raises questions I cannot answer or ignore, the sort of questions that possess a wisdom apart from answers.

When I hear that rain makes a sound, I will ask: does the sunshine make a noise?

But children nowadays don't believe in magic. They are forever watching TV and playing computer games. They never look to the skies any more.

With a Spoon?!

Just to check she's not going out." "Going

Twilight Towers.

the window on the count of three. But even with all of Miss Veal's

At first all she could see was a tiny shadowy shape in the corner by the door. She tiptoed out of bed to have a closer look. It was little and dirty and a tad smelly. The dusty floorboards creaked a little under her weight. The tiny thing turned around. It was a rat.

But how had he died? Zoe knew that Gingernut was very young, even in hamster years. Could this be a hamster murder? she wondered. But what kind of person would want to murder a defenceless little hamster? Well, before this story is over, you will know. And you will also know that there are people capable of doing much, much worse. The most evil man in the world is lurking somewhere in this very book. Read on, if you dare…

Hey." He glanced away from her, instead looking down at the coffin. He looked back at her and raised his eyebrows. "Want a peek?

Therefore, at any time of life, follow your own questions; don't mistake other people's questions for your own.