Quotes About Curiosity

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.

To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a new way of looking at things.

Het is natuurlijk om dingen te willen snappen, dat is een heel menselijke drang, maar soms valt er - op een bepaalde manier - niets te snappen.

Something stayed him awhile yet. For the first time in his life he was feeling the traveler's thrill: a mixture of apprehension and excitement.

One of the least admirable things about people," said the small gentleman, "is the way they are afraid of whatever they don't understand.

Enquiring minds want to know.

Who's that behind those Foster Grants?

The man in the Hathaway shirt.

I used to stare up at the sky trying to see where the snowflakes were born. I could do it for hours. Well, minutes. But it was always the waiting that was the most fun.

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

There was a young man from Trinity, Who solved the square root of infinity. While counting the digits, He was seized by the fidgets, Dropped science, and took up divinity.

If you don't know there's a trampoline in the room, you're not going to dust the ceiling for prints.

Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you've been up to.

What manner of man is this?

Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.

He was a king and a god in the world he knew, but now he comes to civilization merely a captive—a show to gratify your curiosity. Ladies and gentlemen, look at Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World!

Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.

Most guys aren't that picky. They may have quicker reflexes around large breasts, but they need more to keep them interested. We know plenty of women whose sex appeal makes their breasts exactly the right size.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are showed unto thee than men understand.

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook?

Cheerleaders know that pyramids were not built in Egypt.

I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed in on Google Earth really fast.

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase — that's what wild geese are for.