Quotes About Curiosity

Jeff Goldblum

There are deeper reasons to travel—itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

Fine," said Khadgar, looking at the books. "I'll just sit here and figure out how to tame an hourglass.

We are intelligent not because we can do one thing particularly well, but because we can learn to do practically anything.

Each question would open a door. What Glenn had to ask herself was, did she want to step through them to the other side?

He wanted to instill that sociability in his son; he believed that being curious about people was one of the few crucial life skills that could be fully nurtured in a place like East Orange.

He had a natural curiosity about the stories of those around him paired with a brain that was quick to draw insights from within each of these stories.

He talked about what he believed defined a Real Man: someone who had honor, curiosity, respect for women, and took responsibility for his people.

I don't know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it's hard for me to get interested in other people's vacations.

Seriously, though, in this day and age I don't know why we're still cutting open frogs to see what's inside them. If somebody tells me there's a heart and intestines inside a frog, I'm willing to take their word for it.

Seriously, though, in this day and age I don't know why we're still cutting open frogs to see what's inside them. If somebody tells me there's a heart and intestines inside a grog, I'm willing to take their word for it.

Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

If you're not cutting away more ideas than you keep, you're probably not doing discovery work right.

it was better to leave a mystery outside the door -- something they would expand in their minds, and fear.

A tree looked like it was eating somebody, but it may also have been bathing them.

I realized I was ignoring my girlfriend. I couldn't remember, was it two in the pink and one in the stink? Three in the pink and two in the stink? How many went in the stink?" ~ Jeff strand

It seems to me that the only wrong thing I could do with whatever gifts I've been given as a musician or an artist would be to let curiosity die.

The creative state is the most important part. None of it means anything if you're not excited by the discovery of what you're making.

I find it's almost impossible to put two words together and not find at least some meaning. We're conditioned to look for patterns and identify mysteries to solve much more than we are designed to dictate what we're searching for. I recommend allowing that natural curiosity and our sense-making brains to do their thing.

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

People who asked questions didn't necessary like being asked questions.

If I don't have real answers, it is because we still don't know what questions to ask. Our instruments are useless, our methodology broken, our motivations selfish.