Quotes About Curiosity

Where did I meet him before - this buckbasket of fat, this full-moon face of purple, and this carriage of a sacred elephant?

Now, to follow out this reasoning, what is the marvellous?—that which we do not understand. What is it that we really desire?—that which we cannot obtain.

So, summoning up all the power of her will, she tried to shut her eyes, but this operation of the most fearful of our senses, an operation that is normally so simple, at that moment became almost impossible to carry out, so strongly did eager curiosity struggle to push back her eyelids and discover the truth.

So! Isn't it worth one's curiosity to study the different ways that the soul may leave the body and how, according to the character, the temperament, or even the local customs of a country, individuals face up to that supreme journey from being to nothingness? As for me, I can assure you of one thing: the more you have seen others die, the easier it becomes to die oneself. So, in my opinion, death may be a torment, but it is not an expiation.

people who don't ask too many questions give the best consolation.

He then closed his eyes as children do in order that they may see in the resplendent night of their own imagination more stars than are visible in the firmament;

I found out that with one hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know.

some trace in contemporary works of these extraordinary names which had so strongly awakened our curiosity.

Taste the hashish, guest of mine—taste the hashish.

D'Artagnan looked for some tapestry behind which he might hide himself, and felt an immense inclination to crawl under the table.

relates that on his first visit to M.

Mais, pour lire les auteurs étrangers, je ne sais ni le grec, ni l'anglais, ni l'allemand.   - Parbleu  ! la belle affaire, vous apprendrez ces langues-là.   - Comment  ?   - Je n'en sais rien. Mais retenez ceci : on apprend toujours ce que l'on veut apprendre ;

Conceal your wounds when you have any; silence is the last joy of the unhappy. Beware of giving anyone the clue to your griefs; the curious suck our tears as flies suck the blood of a wounded hart.

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what's easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

What happened to your face, Dagenham?' Fourmyle asked with detached curiosity. The death's-head smiled. 'And I thought I was famous. Radiation poisoning. I'm hot. Time was when they said Hotter than a pistol. Now they say Hotter than Dagenham.

Perhaps the most important principle for the good algorithm designer is to refuse to be content.

She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

she wonders if she has something other people don't. Intuition or hope -- she wouldn't know what to call it.

They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.