Quotes About Curiosity

Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.

Jaka jest ró?nica pomiÄ™dzy obserwatorem a gapiem? Ten pierwszy robi notatki.

was about ten years old. It was called The Geek.

Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

Hairy Mammal whaddya want

Where are we going, Walt Whitman?

You really saw some? Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, They really...exist? Liz, I whispered back, they're not unicorns. No, Bex said flatly, they're boys. And they're...good.

People who love reading are often called bookworms — but that's the wrong way around. It's not you that worms into a book; it's books that worm into you." — Amanda Craig

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

Observatory n, A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

When he had ended, the holy hermit was a moment silent, then said: My son, I have attended to thy story and I know the maiden. I have myself seen her, as have many. Know, then, that she is capricious for she imposeth conditions that man cannot fulfill, and delinquency is punished by desertion. She cometh only when unsought, and will not be questioned. One manifestation of curiosity, one sign of doubt, one expression of misgiving, and she is away!

Yet he wasn't doing anything threatening at the moment. Instead, he was regarding her with curiosity. "Sarah Vida, I presume?" he inquired, voice civil. "Making sure introductions are out of the way before we fight?" she asked flippantly.

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.

Why do I do this?

Why do I do it, when it always hurts me? Why must we test the pain? Tongue the ulcer, rub the blister, pick the scab?

I saw two Northmen. One was reading a book.' 'Really? A book?' Friendly shrugged. 'There are readers everywhere.

Elállt az es?, a földek fölött kisütött a nap. Halvány szivárvány nyújtózott a szürke égbolt alatt. Monza kíváncsi lett volna, tényleg manók laknak-e a tövében, ahogyan az apja mondta neki, vagy ott is csak szar van, ahogy mindehol máshol. Kihajolt a nyeregb?l és a búza közé köpött. Manószar talán.

Never take eggs from a metal-eyed man.

Perhaps we'll have some answers, at least, before the end. I always dreamed of dying well-informed.

So this is what luck looks like, is it? I've often wondered.