Quotes About Curiosity

but I can't stand the idea that I'll go to my grave never knowing what happened.

like the first had been

Where the fuck are you? There's no noise." "In Cornwall." For a moment, Strike expected Shanker to ask where that was. Shanker was almost impressively ignorant of the country that lay beyond London.

Everyone wants a single, simple solution," he said, now finishing his last few chips. "One weird trick to lose belly fat. I've never clicked on it, but I understand the appeal.

He pointed a finger at the sky. 'What?' said Robin, looking up into the blue haze. 'If you look carefully,' said Strike, 'you might just see an asteroid passing through the house of bollocks.

Britain. Bombarded with the story, you grew interested against your will, and before you knew it, you were so well informed, so opinionated about the facts of the case, you would have been unfit to sit on a jury.

insouciance, he was edgy. Why didn't he ask why Strike was there? Or did

Just for a moment, as he pulled himself back inside the Land Rover, Strike wondered where he'd be if he lived to eighty, and who'd be there with him.

to be found?' 'You're suggesting

not say and Max had known better than to ask.

curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.

For every question, there is a book.

Credulity is not a virtue, and investigation is not a crime.

Principle underlying all of the solutions = question we ask

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

Be venturesome. Try new things that appeal to you. Examine others. Have a pioneer spirit. Prevent your drawing from being common. Put life into it.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

Third Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting

The student of story collections finds himself adrift on an ocean of stories, an ocean which is boundless, deep and ceaselessly in motion.

and looked at Loren Page, who had taken on a strange look.

and Jess was looking through his spyglass. He scanned the wooded hillsides around the little

him there?" asked Jess.

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?