Quotes About Curiosity

I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it.

I pressed him no further, and never found out where his father lived.

The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.

Did you know if you look deep, deep, deep into a cat's eyes, there's an alter with three candles ?

If a teacher does not appeal to the curiosity of a student and has failed to make the subject being taught the most interesting thing in the environment, the teacher has created the perfect environment for ADD. This teacher will eventually tell the parents of a dyslexic child that the child can't stay on task, is easily distractible and

You aroused his . . . that surely was very indiscreet.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Tudo o que aprendemos nas nossas vidas breves não é mais do que uma ninharia insubstancial arrancada à enormidade do que nunca saberemos.

The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer. — Rhett

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer.

they were looking for housekeepers and cooks, and I was dying to get out of Australia and see the rest of the world. It's a Sagittarius thing, you know. We just move on and on, like tumbleweeds.

He's got one passenger aboard–a girl." "A girl?" repeated Dave, staring somewhat mystified at the approaching vehicle. "Yes." "That's queerer still," remarked the young aviator.

How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?

The motto of all the mongoose family is, Run and find out, and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is Run and find out, and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat (23).

What is this, said the leopard,that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?

I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.

Then the Kolokolo Bird said with a mournful cry, Go to the banks of the great, grey-green greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.

Otherwise, he would be far away in the jungle; tasting, touching, seeing, and feeling new things.