Quotes About Curiosity

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child - it grows to be a man.

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

He understood now why the world was strange, why horses galloped furiously, and why trains whistled as they raced through stations.

All the same I wouldn't laugh about it, if I was you," Défago added, looking over Simpson's shoulder into the shadows. "There's places in there nobody won't never see into — nobody knows what lives in there either.

Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

Now what we don't want is Facts. What we want is bewilderment. What we want is repetition. What we want is repetition.

What's the answer, according to you, to life's mysteries? she says. The answer is a question, the man says still sitting uninvited to her table. And the question is, Into whose myth do we choose to buy?

It feels a little dangerous, to be so close to fairy tale.

I don't know, her mother says. I don't know much about it. It was quite hard to find out anything. But I'm finding it quite enjoyable, not knowing.

Yeah, but the thing I particularly like about the word but, now that I think about it, is that it always takes you off to the side, and where it takes you is always interesting.

Oamenii treceau pe trotuarul de deasupra. M? priveau ca ?i cum a? fi fost nebun?. Un pesc?ru? patrula pe autostrad?. M? privea ca ?i cum a? fi fost nebun?.

She came right up to the side of the building as if she were coming round its corner and simply sort of reading the sign because that's what she was, a girl reading the world.

I think nonsense raises two human urges. One: to be playful, be curious and curiouser, and 2: to make meaning out what seems to have none. Or flaunt having none. And since everything we do, being human, is up against time, nonsense is panacheful, cocks a snook at all the rules and regulations and reminds us of our freedoms up against the clock.

Elisabeth is faintly perturbed. She realizes this is because she likes to imagine her mother knows nothing much about anything.

There was once a child whose mother fell asleep. The end. Is that it? I said What else do you need to know? you said. Can't you tell me a little more about them? I said. (I was beginning to despair of your storytelling technique.)

Oh! a real ghost story!" cried Helen. "Do let's hear it.

Thats the trouble. all i wanted was a tumble in the hay. oh, boy, i said. ill bet that cute thing is fun and games. what he doesn't know about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, i can sure teach him

Last night," he said, reminiscently, "you bound my arm—the merest scratch! with all the tenderness of which a woman is capable when her compassion is aroused. Today, you propose to shoot me in cold blood for no better reason than that I will not gratify your curiosity! It has been truly said that females are strange creatures!