Quotes About Curiosity

Outside the window the boys gabbled to each other. 'White as milk, she said. White as milk.' 'White as a stone, like chalk you write with.

Ray Bradbury

Most of us can't rush around, talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you are looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book.

Você pergunta o porquê de muitas coisas e, se insistir, acaba se tornando realmente muito infeliz.

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead.

Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book.

Faber sniffed the book. Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land?

Cram them full of non-combustable data, chock them so damn full of facts they feel stuffed, but absolutely brilliant with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

Space travel has again made children of us all.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' He asked 'Sometimes twice

?t ph?i có cái gì Ä'ó trong nh?ng cu?n sách, nh?ng th? ta không th? hình dung, nó khi?n cho ng??i Ä'àn bà ? l?i trong c?n nhà cháy, ph?i có cái gì ??y ? trong Ä'ó. Em ? l?i Ä'âu ph?i ch?ng vì má»™t cái gì.

And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything

thing like this happen? I wish we'd brought Einstein with

After all, when we had all the books we needed, we still insisted on finding the highest cliff to jump off. But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off.

So I thought the best thing for me is a place so different that all you got to do is open your eyes and you're entertained.

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious.

The fascination of the abomination.

I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.

Skepticism is the tonic of the mind .

All the pilgrims rushed out to see. I remained, and went on with my dinner. I believe I was considered brutally callous. However, I did not eat much.

But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.

leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on. His little eyes glittered

Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth