Quotes About Curiosity

Only the nonreader fears books.

I read.. because one life is not enough

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

I read because one life isn't enough.

Back at Santa Anita, a five-year-old boy, George Takei, who later became a famous actor, was fond of the searchlights. He thought they were there to help him find his way to the latrine and back—rather than to prevent him from escaping.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

You wonder what he's thinking when he shivers like that.

and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

You thought if you handed over your body he'd do something interesting.

and everyone's watching, everyone's curious, everyone's holding their breath.

You had expected something else, anything else

We have been very brave, we have wanted to know the worst, wanted the curtain to be lifted from our eyes.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

After a half hour of sitting and staring at Mister Lewis sitting on his box, Patrick heard the sound of an engine

We need mystery," she said. "Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility, grandson, is the foundation of all learning.

I am not here in this life to be well balanced or admired. I'm here to be an oddball, eccentric, different, wildly imaginative, creative, daring, curious, inventive and even a tad strange at times.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

If the embryo could reason in the womb, it would wonder why it grew hands and feet, and it would surely conclude that there must be another world to play and run and work.

I always love seeing what worries you. Strigoi? No. Questionable food? Yes.

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.