Quotes About Curiosity

What's news?" She put the magazine down and looked at me. "Philip K. Dick is dead." "Who's that?" I asked.

It's the feeling of being an eternal student that keeps this profession interesting.

Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.

Life is a mystery to lived, not a problem to be solved.

Ciro pointed through the

You really believe in the power of books, don't you?" "Whatever it is that you're feeling, whatever it is you have a question about, whatever it is that you long to know, there is some book, somewhere, with the key. You just have to search for it.

The Astronomer AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?

I cannot live without reading.

But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.

Your eyes shine, he said. How do they do that? Blood, she said.

curiosity is the key to creativity

Co z tobÄ… ? Oj, popatrz, bo ci tam mrówki do Å›rodka wÅ'a??. Odwin??a kobieta spódnicÄ™, wystawiÅ'a co miaÅ'a - faktycznie coÅ› siÄ™ rusza - sprawdza: wewnÄ…trz kÅ'Ä™bek poczwarek. Starzec sÅ'yszaÅ' podobno, jak siÄ™ rojÄ….

Everyone is interested in what's new. Few people are interested in what's better.

Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real lives.

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can inhibit us from observing others; we become taken up with adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, we have to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

The motor of our ingenuity is the question 'Does it have to be like this?', from which arise political reforms, scientific developments, improved relationships, better books.

It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.