Quotes About Curiosity

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43 MIDNIGHT DISCOVERY

Every story began with the same claim: "If you hear the first part, you'll want to hear the second. If you hear the story today, you'll come back tomorrow for another. If you hear the story tonight, you'll think about it as you sleep.

The world would be a better place if everyone traveled. ~Miss Clarrie

She taught us to ask. Never be afeared to look dumb. 'Cause looking dumb don't matter. Being dumb, that matter. So just ask. And if you don't get a straight answer, then go seeking. No matter what it is. Just go seeking.

Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

Meaning?" Shane asked. "That I think it would be fun to put Brooke and Drake in a box and shake them up together to see what kind of noise they make," Michael suggested, giving in to his laughter.

for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

D?l paiko smalsumo žmon?s kartais net praranda tik?jim?.

While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.

For sure we'll make a ton of money," Claire said. "Money? What's that?" Kaz asked. "You don't know what money is?" Claire gaped at him. "No." Claire laughed.

Cosmo poked his head back through the wall. He barked twice at Kaz, then disappeared again.

Nonsense. Fools refuse to try something new.

Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward it and wonder. I never wondered. I read. Dark signs that crawled toward the edge of the page. It took me years to grow a heart from paper and glue. All I had was a flashlight, bright as the moon, a white hole blazing beneath the sheets.

They are savage for knowledge, for beauty and truth. They crawl on their knees to find it.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

The three things Aristotle couldn't understand: the work of the bees, the coming and going of the tide, and the mind of a woman. —Irish Triad

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

All vital persons are the target of the curiosity of those who are not vital; but the few whose opinions concern you will know the truth, and the others are of no importance. Yet many withdraw from active life, not to take up an intenser inner life, but merely to avoid the vulgar curiosity of the crowd.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

The danger, of course, existed in her curiosity, her intelligence, and her stubbornly observant eyes. She had to go away before she found out too much. No one wished her, personally, any harm; she was small and pretty and no one would want to hurt her, but if she became a danger she must suffer.

Eavesdroppers, she had always heard, and similarly people burrowing into private matters, found nothing to comfort them.