Quotes About Curiosity

Watch that lad going down the street, his eyes are looking far out. Is his vision across the prairie or over the grey-backed seas? At any rate, it isn't here. Don't I know it!

At first, all wonder and curiosity, we are easily influenced by surrounding circumstances, which often affect our lives, as colours laid at the root of bulbous plants are said to transmit their tints to the blossom; next comes the age of knowledge, when reason struggles with passion, and is not always the victor; lastly, the decay, when passion is extinct, and we live from day to day on our memories, and then drop into dust.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

A four year old girl was overheard whispering in her newborn baby brother's ear: "Baby," she whispers, "tell me what God sounds like. I'm starting to forget." -- Between the Dreaming and the Coming True

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and add to his knowledge, Nor will it suffice to justify learned men in the neglect and contempt of this part of natural history, that the men, from whom it must be learned, are illiterate mechanicks... is indeed childish, and too unworthy of a philosopher, to be worthy of an honest answer.

There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation — is there a worst trade one makes in life?

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

Shooting. Put oneself into a state of intense ignorance and curiosity, and yet see things in advance.

The curious crime, the fineFelicity and flower of wickedness.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,That's a' the learning I desire.