Quotes About Curiosity

Most people, if you give them a book, they sniff around on it awhile, then try to eat it.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets.

Learning never exhaust the mind

Once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

I didn't know you were a techie, Mulder.' said Scully... 'I used to fool around with ham radios when I was a kid,' Mulder said, not looking up from his work. 'Let me guess why,' said Scully. 'Ever succeed in making contact with a spaceship?'... 'No,' said Mulder. 'But it wasn't from lack of trying.

I have to admit, this place gives me the creeps.' [said Scully]. 'The creeps?' said Mulder with a smile. 'Just because a bunch of big, strong men cleared out so fast they didn't finish their food? And then vanished into thin air? Don't be silly. I'm sure there's a nice scientific explanation. Oh, sorry Scully. You're the one who's supposed to be telling me that, right?

Powiedz mi, ale szczerze - odezwa?a si? Scully, zmierzaj?c w stron? budynku. - Dlaczego rozsta?e? si? z Jerrym? - Bo jestem trudny. - Pytam powa?nie. - Nie jestem trudny? - Mulder, nie wyg?upiaj si?.

Learn to say I don't know when you really DON'T know.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

It's not as if I don't have anything to read; there's a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I've been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that's afflicted me most of my life.

Do you suppose she's a wildflower?

For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul

There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.

Curiouser and curiouser!" Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

It was much pleasanter at home, thought poor Alice, when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--...

We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!