Quotes About Curiosity

Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk—as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed.

the village. There he saw a little girl holding

He is not Ikki to dig holes, nor Mao, the Peacock, that he should fly. He is not Mang the Bat, to hang in the branches. Little bamboos that creak together, tell me where he ran?

Here Rikki-tikki interrupted, and the rest of the song is lost.)

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.

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.

Hemos venido a verle para saber de este país, para leer un libro sobre él y para que nos enseñe mapas. Queremos que nos diga que estamos locos y que nos enseñe libros.

Hemos venido a verle para saber de este país, para leer un libro sobre él y para que nos enseñe mapas. Queremos que nos diga que estamos locos y que nos enseñe libros.

One view called me to another; one hill top to its fellow, half across the country, and since I could answer at no more trouble than the snapping forward of a lever, I let the country flow under my wheels.

Other people were in one world; he was in a second. And the distance between their worlds caused other concern and perplexity made them curious about him -- for here he was alone in his world; and there they were gathered together in theirs.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.

People who for years had not looked for things in booked found new appetites for knowledge when they spoke to him. To someone who came in asking for the latest novel he might sell not only the novel but a biological treatise on the life of ants, an ecological study of ancient man, a philosophical work, and a history of small sailing-craft.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

Before one knows it, he's nearly through with the book and then must continue so as to 'find out what happens at the end.' These are the sort of book of which publishers say 'Once you pick it up, you can't put it down,'and one of the major reasons you don't want to put it down is that you don't ever want to pick it up again.

Now, tell me. Where did you get that?" He glanced down in the direction of her accusing stare. "Oh, that! Somebody lent it to me." He was wearing it specially. A winged penis. To meet his wife's people. She would never understand Romans.

she turned to the first page, feeling vaguely prurient, like an eavesdropper or a peeping tom. Novelists spend a lot of time poking their noses into other people's business. Ruth was not unfamiliar with this feeling.

What makes a person want so much? What gives things the power to enchant, and is there any limit to the desire for more?

Could Pesto be his own observer? Interesting question. He used to like to raise his leg and study his asshole. It didn't seem like this observation caused him to split into multiple cats with multiple assholes.

I felt it wouldn't kill me to learn something before I died

Ruth had always been fascinated by the meandering currents of his mind

Never be afraid of not knowing, young man. Not knowing is ze practice of poets and sages.

The best antidote for sadness, I have always believed, is tackling something that you don't know how to do.

You look like a cat touching a mirror," said Carol, watching me. "You know the way they look at themselves and then reach out a paw as if they can't believe it's glass and not another cat?