Quotes About Curiosity

Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.

Adventure is but a collection of detours.

New things have to be tried. How do you know otherwise if something's good if you don't try it?

I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

It's as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into.

But, Dandelion, I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

Hej! - rycza? Yarpen Zigrin siedz?cy na ko?le, wskazuj?c na Yennefer. - Co? si? tam czerni na szlaku! Ciekawe, co to? Wygl?da jak koby?a! - Bez ochyby! - odwrzasn?? Jaskier, odsuwaj?c na ty? g?owy ?liwkowy kapelusik. - To koby?a! Wierzchem na wa?achu! Niebywa?e!

The unicorn discovered several clumps of yellowed thistles and ate them with relish. This time Ciri did not join him. But when Little Horse found some lizard's eggs in the sand, she ate and he watched her.

You aren't a monster, Nivellen," the witcher said dryly. "Pox, that's something new. So what am I? Cranberry pudding? A flock of wild geese flying south on a sad November morning? No? Maybe I'm the virtue that a miller's buxom daughter lost in spring? Well, Geralt, tell me what I am. Can't you see I'm shaking with curiosity?

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry

We poets have to know about everything," said Dandelion haughtily. "Otherwise we'd compromise our work. One has to learn, my dear fellow, learn.

So many little animals, oh my. There can't be so many anywhere else.' 'There can't,' he muttered. 'Nowhere else. This is Brokilon.' 'What?' 'Brokilon. The Last Place.' 'I don't understand.' 'No one understands. No one wants to understand.

There's no such thing as devils!" yelled the poet, shaking the cat from sleep once and for all. "No such thing! To the devil with it, devils don't exist!" "True." Geralt smiled. "But, Dandilion, I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

De nombreux journaux avaient relaté dans leurs colonnes l'aventure incroyable qui était arrivée à M. Malcolm Guthrie de Braemore ; même le Daily Mail londonien y avait consacré quelques lignes dans sa rubrique "Curiosités".

Co oni tam robiÄ… do cholery? - zaciekawiÅ' siÄ™ Jaskier. - Powiedzcie, do cholery! Elf uÅ›miechnÄ…Å' siÄ™. Bardzo, bardzo smutno. - Nie lubiÄ™, wielkich sÅ'ów - powiedziaÅ'. - A nie u?ywajÄ…c wielkich sÅ'ów, nie da siÄ™ tego nazwa?.

It is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge

There was only one way to find out whether something had tied the witcher to anyone—one had to enter through the window at the appropriate moment.

I asked out of an inappropriate curiosity born of the desire to start new rumours going around the inns.

taste of forbidden fruit, made all the more exciting

We shan't know,' Cahir chipped in, 'until we find out.

I lack the imagination. For that reason I have to pack, stuff into my pockets odds and ends, passport, money, and go see what it's really like. Whenever the time of year or the weather changes, I have to pack up whatever I can't do without and visit all those places I've been before, to make sure they still exist

I want the president of the United States to be intellectually curious for a simple reason: I think the person running the country should be smarter than I am. We've just lived through the alternative, and it was only good for the liquor industry.