Quotes About Curiosity

Y desde dónde nos llama, señora Cargols? Desde Sant Joan Despí.

Ik weet niet wat een concubine is en ook niet wat je ermee in bad kunt doen. Ik dacht dat het een spons was.

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

Not all questions can be answered.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

Walking makes the world much bigger and therefore more interesting.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?

refuse to accept assertions blindly. Challenge everything and everyone—including your teachers. Don't be intimidated. You are the best authority on what you don't understand—trust yourself: don't be afraid to ask the questions you need to ask, and be brave enough to change your thinking when you uncover a blind spot.

Search for evidence and don't be satisfied until you know the why.

One of the challenges of life is to be open-minded about new ideas and new possibilities.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. —Albert Einstein

Effective students and creative innovators regularly strive to uncover the unintended consequences of a lesson learned or a new idea.

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

The best place to find things: the public library.

For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.

Hark, a knock at the door!

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned.

To find what you seek in the road of life,the best proverb of all is that wich says: "Leave no stone unturned.

What is more strange yet, his wife was a daughter of quiet, sober, unfantastic England: she was much younger than himself; she was fair and gentle, with a sweet English face; she had married him from choice, and (will you believe it?) she yet loved him. How she came to marry him, or how this shy, unsocial, wayward creature ever ventured to propose, I can only explain by asking you to look round and explain first to ME how half the husbands and half the wives you meet ever found a mate!

Here is a truth: people are very fascinated by themselves.

Per questo, nel giorno della maniglia perduta, indugiavo con la faccia accostata alla finestra rotta, fantasticando su tutta quella gente dall'altro lato dei cumuli, chiedendomi se sarei mai riuscito a spingermi fino alla città laggiù, Forlichingham, a Londra, immaginando che ci fosse qualcuno dietro tutta quella gente, qualcuno che potesse apprezzarmi. «C'è qualcuno,» sussurrai, «c'è qualcuno lì? Chi sei? Come sei fatto?»

Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.