Quotes About Curiosity

Who was the first human being to look out a window?

my spirit had become so fragile, I was so devoid of the curiosity that, in former times, had been one of my most salient traits.

Jim liked dark women, apparently, history's secret women, he would say, without elaborating. As for me, I liked blondes.

It occurred to me all of a sudden, said Amalfitano, it's a Duchamp idea, leaving a geometry book hanging exposed to the elements to see if it learns something about real life.

Así que todo nos traiciona, incluida la curiosidad y la honestidad y lo que bien amamos. Si, dijo la voz, pero consuélate, en el fondo es divertido.

Calm is the one thing that will never let us down. And Amalfitano said: everything else lets us down? And the voice: yes, that's right, it's hard to admit, I mean it's hard to have to admit it to you, but that's the honest-to-God truth. Ethics lets us down? The sense of duty lets us down? Honesty lets us down? Curiosity lets us down? Love lets us down? Bravery lets us down? Art lets us down? That's right, said the voice, everything lets us down, everything.

and for goodness' sake read widely and deeply…

a woman who didn't cling to the edge of the abyss but plunged into it with curiosity and elegance.

a woman who despite her years was still as strong willed as ever, a woman who didn't cling to the edge of the abyss but plunged into it with curiosity and elegance. A woman who plunged into the abyss sitting down.

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En esos días experimenté algo que se parecía si no a la felicidad, sí al entusiasmo, caminando al azar por calles que antes no frecuentaba y que indefectiblemente terminaban en la Via Tiburtina o en el Parco di Traiano.

She was worse than a blabber; she was a hinter. It gave her pleasure to rouse curiosity and speculation about dangerous things.

Art can certainly be an important pathway to discovery. It encourages us to be spontaneous, playful, and curious and to see what lies beneath the surface of our inner life.

Let me remind you of something Einstein once said: "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?"

From A Ride Along the Great Wall, Page 112:

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn't lose any wild pigs, did you?

Silence asks the questions that are too awkward to phrase. It even asks the questions one does not know to ask.

Dragon droppings?" Per asked in awe, as if that were the most fantastic part of their tale.

If you can read, you can learn anything. If you've a will to.

Children, I have found, are much more swift to accept the unusual. They admit their curiosity, you see, rather than disdaining the object that arouses it.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider them all, boy.

once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.

I think there is in the heart of a man a place made for wonder. It sleeps inside, awaiting fulfillment. All one's life, one gathers treasures to fill it.