Quotes About Curiosity

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

I always wanted to be an archaeologist or a psychiatrist.

We all go through phases; in one such phase, I was interested to know about the psychic phenomenon.

I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

I'd always been interested in psychology.

I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.

I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy 'Mind,' another magazine, 'New Scientist,' 'Scientific America.'

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit.

I learned from Linus Pauling it's not a disgrace in science to publish something that's wrong. What's bad is to publish something that's not very interesting.

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.

I grew up listening to Puerto Rican music like everybody else. But when I listened to Charlie Parker for the first time, I said, 'How does this guy play so fast?'

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world.

I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.

I'm the kind of person who will pull sheets out of magazines and print materials and put them in a book. That's me; I do that.