Quotes About Curiosity

Even our strongest emotions die, don't you think? And we can look back to the woman we were three years ago with the same curiosity and detachment as if it were someone else.

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

You can't ask my father anything directly. So I file it away with all the other things I don't know about my parents - permanently missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is me.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

The friendship of two young people,' says Goethe somewhere, 'is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.' It will perhaps be said that this virgin curiosity is no more than unconscious physical desire; but what does it matter, if this desire sharpens the mind and deadens conceit?

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

Cel?lalt este alc?tuit din întreb?ri pe care nu îndr?zneÈ™ti s? i le pui... Iat? una dintre întreb?rile de nerostit: ce crezi despre mine? ?i totuÈ™i, ne petrecem timpul presupunând cum ne v?d ceilalÈ›i, imaginându-ne pe noi înÈ™ine tr?ind în mintea lor.

I love insects. They are amazing.

Montessori went straight to my heart, because it's all about encountering the world through the senses. That's how kids learn best. The hands are the instrument of the mind—that was how Maria Montessori put it.

The most stupid thing that a man can do in life is be bored.

Readers are sexy.

I share the feeling with many that the appeal of scientific research is to open our minds to the amazement generated by progressive knowledge rather than to close our minds with an ephemeral sense of certainty.

I know they say that's the way the cookie crumbles and all. But you can't help but wonder why there's any cookie-crumbling going on in the first place.

Irgendetwas war falsch an dieser Vorstellung. So erregend sie war. Er machte daran herum, wie man mit der Zunge an den Zähnen herumtastet, wenn man glaubt, irgendwo könnte ein Loch sein.

But in your eyes I capture "what the bleep" From the poem Tour of Duty by Andreas Simic

I knew there was something holding me here. It wasn't paprikash. Or nostalgia for my meager childhood... ...Somewhere in me a nearly voiceless child was asking to know the rest of the story that had been interrupted.

In literature as in love we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny.… " —Author and former biochemistry professor Isaac Asimov

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. —From "On Listening to Lectures" by Plutarch

To get his ducks in a row. Odd expression. Can you imagine how hard that would actually be? With real ducks?" "So he could make his killing." "Yes. But you let the cat out of the bag. Another odd turn of phrase. What sort of bastard would put a cat in a bag in the first place? What is it about us and animals?

Andrew Clements