Quotes About Curiosity

My free will was compromised, if only by the severe temptation of the unknown.

What does the border look like?" A child's question. A question whose answer means nothing. There is nothing but border. There is no border.

Among all the impossible things he had already witnessed, what were a few more?

If I don't have real answers, it is because we still don't know what questions to ask.

The thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn't care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.

What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.

The impatient, feckless reader, posessed of no glimmer of intellectual or historical curiosity, should do an old historian a favor and skip the next few pages, proceeding directly to the Silence itself (Part III). I would assume that, in these horrid modern times, that will include most of you. Of course, those readers least likely to read these footnotes, and thus least likely to appreciate the next few pages, will skip this note and bore themselves upon the ennui of history .

Can you really imagine what it was like in those first moments, peering down into that dark space, and seeing that? Perhaps you can. Perhaps you're staring at it right now.

But you're curious, too," she said. "Why do you say that?" "You guard the light. And light sees everything.

Always that riptide compulsion dragging you down into the water, that need to know overriding the fear.

rhinoceroscrutian

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. El conocimiento es limitado, la imaginación rodea el mundo".

O que a gente não conhece é sempre mais atraente do que aquilo que temos.

Side by side stood The Lady of the Lake, Treasure Island, and David Copperfield; and coverless and dogeared lay Robinson Crusoe, The Arabian Nights, and Grimm's Fairy Tales. There were more, many more, and David devoured them all with eager eyes. The good in them he absorbed as he absorbed the sunshine; the evil he cast aside unconsciously—it rolled off, indeed, like the proverbial water from the duck's back.

Contudo, o sentimento em relação às terras distantes permanece, e o interesse por elas jamais arrefece. Assim, o homem cavouca, insaciável, em épocas passadas e em culturas desconhecidas. A rigidez da própria existência aumenta, e essas épocas e culturas oferecem o instrumento inesgotável para a transformação.

Ich sah verwundert, wie bescheiden, ja wie kümmerlich meine Wißbegier war, verglichen mit der eines solchen Mannes (...)

The remaining, less developed characters, were still either listening or laughing. They were divided between curiosity and satisfaction. They felt happy, but did not know it.

Quando si viaggia, si prende tutto come viene, lo sdegno rimane a casa. Si osserva, si ascolta, ci si entusiasma per le cose più atroci solo perché sono nuove. I buoni viaggiatori sono gente senza cuore.

Questions outlive the answers.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

To talk to a stranger is like talking to the stars: it doesn't commit you.