Quotes About Curiosity

A moment later, she and The Little Guy disappear into the trees. I didn't know exactly what was going on. I thought maybe she was going to eat him in privacy, because it had crossed my mind to do just that. There wouldn't have been a lot of preparation and very little hair to spit out. Just swing him by the feet, whack him on a rock, and a hot dinner was served.

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.

A boy standing in the rain, and what is he thinking?

Wait a second," Han said. "What are those things?" She shook her head. "Life-forms." "Thanks, Doc," he said.

Do you always ask so many questions?" "My guidance counselor says it's the sign of an intellectually curious mind.

You should consider traveling, spending some time seeing the world. It's best when you're young.

Miss Chemistry

door swung open again before Mason could ask if she was taking Dennis

What are you doing?" I asked Loretta. "Stabbing a cushion," she told me.

Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect.

When a man wants to know who lives in the apartment opposite, it's always a pretty girl," I said. "When a pretty girl wants to know, it's generally a man with field glasses. One of the most popular of New York sports.

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

Satellite images, maps and blueprints of the whole world, of every city. We could look it up and know what's there in someone else's words. Or we could get wicked drunk and just go.

There's something not quite Christian about it," Tony said. He sat back in his chair and looked up to where his Bible sat on the shelf. "I can't put my finger on why exactly, but it doesn't seem right for a couple of young ladies to be out there in the middle of the night, obsessing over their telescopes.

Holly shit. For a second, he thought he was looking at Ben's special arrangement, but because Ben knew Peter's tastes, he wouldn't have arranged for this girl. Not unless he'd reached ass deep inside of Peter and pulled out some unconscious dream he hadn't realized he had. All the attributes that Peter usually sought weren't obvious in this one. In fact, she wasn't anything like the women who usually attracted his attention. Yet here he was unable to look away.

But he saw her and, God, it was exactly like last night. Everything he'd learn about this particular woman would fascinate him; he was sure of it. He'd want to learn more and more. This was real. [...] He'd take anything, even thirty minutes in a coffee shop, but she was running late. So he'd have to treat the next ten minutes as the most important of his life - without scaring the shit out of her.

Wat hij zocht was droom, enthousiasme, avontuur - drie synoniemen.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

The curiosity to know things which are too high for us, which are beyond our horizon, which are unfathomable precisely because of the weakness which makes the future so obscure to us, has led men into many such ludicrous methods and errors.

Ço­ cuklar?n etrafta ko?turmaya dönük do?al arzular?n?n önüne geçildi?inde, dikkat becerileri ve beyinlerinin genel sa?l??? zarar görüyor.

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.