Quotes About Curiosity

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

It is the laziness of mind to believe that what hasn't been , cannot be and will not be.

In children we often see this path to knowledge quite overtly. The child takes something apart, breaks it up in order to know it; or it takes an animal apart; cruelly tears off the wings of a butterfly in order to know it, to force its secret. The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

Ich war kein Lehrer, sondern ein Lerner. Ich wollte nicht lehren, sondern lernen. Ich hatte Lehrer werden wollen, um möglichst lange ein Schüler bleiben zu können. Ich wollte Neues, immer wieder Neues aufnehmen und um keinen Preis Altes, immer wieder Altes weitergeben. Ich war hungrig, ich war kein Bäcker. Ich war wissensdurstig, ich war kein Schankwirt.

I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love.

Why—the question on which all logic, all philosophy, all science has shattered up to now

Children, that's what a man needs—children, who know nothing about it.

Tikai p?c piln?gas izš?iršan?s rodas patiesa interese par visu, kas attiecas uz otru cilv?ku. Tas ir viens no m?las paradoksiem.

I see their dark forms, their beards move in the wind. I know nothing of them except that they are prisoners; and that is exactly what troubles me. Their life is obscure and guiltless;—if I could know more of them, what their names are, how they live, what they are waiting for, what their burdens are, then my emotion would have an object and might become sympathy.

Don't ask anything more. There are more secrets in your hair than in a thousand questions.

C'est vraiment honteux d'aller et venir sur la terre et de ne presque rien savoir d'elle... Pas même quelques noms.

La Ciencia es la Luz, (..) Trae ilustración y conocimiento a la gente que antes vivía en la oscuridad. Para que las colecciones de arte, las curiosidades y las casas de fieras pudieran llegar a ser útil, y no solo diversión.

She loved "their funny stiff dancing, listening to their incomprehensible and guttural tongue, and watching their simple gestures, natural behavior and childlike eagerness for life.

In England, they're filled with curiosity and keep asking: 'Why doesn't he come?' " Hitler said, infusing every gesture with irony. "Be calm. Be calm. He's coming! He's coming!" The laughter from the audience verged on the maniacal.

following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What

I FIRST STARTED READING about the Lusitania on a whim, following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously.

Murder was a fascination as always.

Oh, Moon, lovely Moon, with thy beautiful face Careering throughout the boundaries of space Whenever I see thee, I think in my mind Shall I ever, oh ever, behold thy behind.

Isn't a bookshop, to some extent, a temple to Browsing?

But there was something about Diesel... it started with his name and ended with his butt.

But I figured every girl on the planet had found herself wishing she had a free pass inside a man's mind at one point or another. Maybe it was self-preservation that we didn't have such powers. It might be holy-crap creepy in there.

I'd never seen a penis in person and I was curious

Pulling his weight back off of her, he nodded over his shoulder. "Show me what's in the bedroom." Though her body leapt in expectation, she tried to play it cool. "Oh, just a dresser, a TV, a dead stuffed deer, and, oh, yeah, a bed." "Forget the deer. Show me how the bed works.