Quotes About Curiosity

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Make the time to connect to your more playful side, the child within you. Take the time to study the positive qualities of children and model their ability to stay energized, imaginative and completely in the moment no matter what might be going on around them.

He stared at the clear spring water, and wondered why he had brought Megan to Madron Well. The truth chuckled and bubbled out from underneath the rock.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate." —Steven Pressfield

Vincent van Gogh said: 'For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries

No tengas el menor reparo en preguntar lo que sea, por más básico que parezca. Las preguntas son el modo más efectivo de suscitar el conocimiento.

They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.

Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.

and you and I left with the same old question the sheer unspeakable strangeness of being here at all

We don't know enough, we'll never know. Oh happy Homer, taking the stars and the Gods for granted.

Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin. Duchess: They can, and most of 'em do.

This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone.

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A mature wolf can watch and wait for hours, a cub not yet fully a wolf cannot. To him, a pebble is a diamond for a few moments; or a newly found feather becomes the sole thread on which the entire universe is suspended.

As a child I simply did not notice whether a movie was in color or not. The movies themselves were such an overwhelming mystery that if they wanted to be in black and white, that was their business.

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove people mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven't read many of them and I never will. You just never know. One day I may — need is the word I use — to read Finnegans Wake, the Icelandic sagas, Churchill's history of the Second World War, the complete Tintin in French, 47 novels by Simenon, and By Love Possessed.

You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Perhaps it is the nature of man not to wish to know too much about his own nature.

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.

Pique or policy. We would never know.

And reading is a wonderful thing for the mind. I have not been many places in my life. But in books, I have traveled all over the world.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.