Quotes About Curiosity

noone knows and noone sees we lovers doing what we please but people stop and point at these ten milk bottles a-turning into cheese

Like the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure in beauty is curious: it aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds.

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers — all depending on what you are looking for. But if you think there's only one right answer, then you'll stop looking as soon as you find one.

I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing.

I had been wandering, looking for something novel, something that suited my fancy. I came upon that place at that time in the same way we find anything. I let my desires lead me and I followed my instincts.

You ever kill yourself, Corwin?" "Not recently. How'd you manage it?

No sense in looking for our differences when I had just met him.

I saw my face in your own. It was strange. I wanted to know you better.

Simple curiosity, more than suspicion even, required that I search these faces for reactions, clues, indications-the faces that I knew better than any others, to the limits of my understanding such things. And of course they told me nothing.

The chalks and slates fascinated them. They yearned to hold the white sticks in their hands, make little white squiggles like the other children, draw pictures of huts, cows, goats, and flowers. It was like magic, to make things appear out of nowhere.

Vagabonding is an attitude—a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word. Vagabonding is not a lifestyle, nor is it a trend. It's just an uncommon way of looking at life—a value adjustment from which action naturally follows. And, as much as anything, vagabonding is about time—our only real commodity—and how we choose to use it.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

you should view each new travel frustration—sickness, fear, loneliness, boredom, conflict—as just another curious facet in the vagabonding adventure.

He also saw human nature as insatiably curious and reserved his highest praise for minds that created "schemes or systems of truth."11

That spring, Gates had survived a serious illness, awakening his curiosity about American medicine.

Big Bill's interest in medicine, conventional and otherwise, began to surface in his son and became more pronounced with time.

I find I already thirst for knowledge about the business.

The lawmakers were drawn to the courtroom by more than curiosity: they had under consideration a bill that would allow truth as a defense in libel trials.

This wasn't someone I had encountered in any biography.

At another point, they met an old man in the roadway whom John so sedulously drained of local lore that the latter finally pleaded with weary resignation, "For God's sake if you will go with me over to that barn yonder, I will start and tell you everything I ever knew."72 This was the same monotonously inquisitive young man who was known as "the Sponge" in the Oil Regions.

When you're a theorist, the two most addictive states to be in are excited and confused

Whenever one asks "Why?" in science, one actually means "How?". "Why?" is not really a sensible question in science because it usually implies purpose and, as anyone who has been the parent of a small child knows, one can keep on asking "Why?" forever, no matter what the answer to the previous question. Ultimately, the only way to end the conversation seems to be to say "Because!