Quotes About Curiosity

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

Howling apples!" gasped T. X. "It's from John Lexman!

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated." [ Saturday Evening Post , September 27, 1958]

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.

Think of the rotten time Alice would have had in Wonderland if she hadn't been broad-minded. Take it as it comes.

Leslie reads too much

He never has seen Seattle; he says he's crazy to; he says he doesn't believe there is any such place or any state called Washington that has a town named Walla Walla.

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.

But, sure, the sky is big, I said; Miles and miles above my head; So here upon my back I'll lie And look my fill into the sky. And so I looked, and, after all, The sky was not so very tall. The sky, I said, must somewhere stop, And — sure enough! — I see the top! The sky, I thought, is not so grand; I 'most could touch it with my hand! And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

Who's that knocking on my grave and will not let me sleep, a year has one

koodaki ghalamroe padshahii ast ke hich kas dar an nakhahad mord

How shall I know, unless I go To Cairo and Cathay, Whether or not this blessed spot Is blest in every way? Now it may be, the flower for me Is this beneath my nose; How shall I tell, unless I smell The Carthaginian rose? The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here,—but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel!

The Unexplorer" There was a road ran past our house Too lovely to explore. I asked my mother once—she said That if you followed where it led It brought you to the milk-man's door. (That's why I have not traveled more.)

My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

Tecnologia é a resposta, mas qual é a questão?