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Quotes About Curiosity

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
~ Linus Pauling
Always desire to learn something useful
~ Sophocles
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
~ Julia Alvarez
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.
~ Charles Willson Peale
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
~ Susan Sontag
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.
~ Giorgio de Chirico
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
~ Tennessee Williams
Some things remain mysterious even if you think about them all the time.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
May 6. No prott. But I have been having very odd thoughts.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
But rather than looking forward to reading that account, I felt as if I were stealing a private diary that had been locked by his death.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Curiosity could be a powerful distraction.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
As we descended into the tower, I felt again, for the first time in a long time, the flush of discovery I had experienced as a child. But I also kept waiting for the snap.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
there is a kind of connectedness between the seemingly random questions of very small kids.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
He would study any number of topics and had no real preferences, his many eyes enthusiastically moving back and forth as he read the pages at a steady clip. I don't believe he needed light, or eyes, to read, but I know he liked to mimic what he saw me doing. Perhaps he even thought it was polite to seem to need light, to seem to need eyes.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
the Séance & Science Brigade
~ Jeff Vandermeer
When Dradin stopped running he found himself on the fringe of the religious quarter, next to an emaciated macadamia salesman who cracked jokes like nuts.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Are you laughing at me?" "No," he said. "No, I'm not. You're a curious person. You ask questions. That's why they don't like you. That's all." People who asked questions didn't necessarily like being asked questions. "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.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Do you think Area X builds spaceships, too? Do you think Area X traverses interstellar space? Wormholes? Think of something more subtle, something peering through what we think of as reality.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
It is less than five hundred years since an entire half of the world was discovered. It is less than two hundred years since the discovery of the last continent. The sciences of chemistry and physics go back scarcely one century.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
What can you do when your five senses are not enough? Because I still couldn't truly see it here, any more than I had seen it under the microscope, and that's what scared me the most. Why couldn't I see it?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
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. His father had told him that. "Don't let them ask questions. You're already giving them the answers, even if they don't know it.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Se não tenho respostas verdadeiras é porque ainda não sabemos que perguntas devemos fazer. Nossos instrumentos são inúteis; nossa metodologia, defeituosa; nossas motivações, egoístas.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Should she somehow think that what came next
~ Jeff Vandermeer