Quotes About Curiosity

difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books—great, big, fat ones—French and German as well as English—history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things.

She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl.

nothing, and Mr. Havisham kept her from suspecting

In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us.

Scientific people are always curious and I am going to be scientific.

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

declared you could see buds unsheath themselves. Also you could make the acquaintance of strange busy insect things running about on various unknown but evidently serious errands, sometimes carrying tiny scraps of straw or feather or food or climbing blades of grass as if they were trees from whose tops one could look out to explore the country.

How does tha' like thysel'?" she inquired, really quite as if she were curious to know.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

Imaginar es algo tan fácil que cuando comienzas cuesta detenerse. Sólo es cuestión de empezar.»

So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment. When

Fresh air won't tire me," said the young Rajah.

So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment.

And, somehow, Sara felt as if she understood her, though she said so little, and only stood still and looked and looked after her as she went out of the shop with the Indian gentleman, and they got into the carriage and drove away.

Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans

bein' on th' stepladder lookin, over th' wall. But I'll tell

I shall live forever and ever and ever! he cried grandly. I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows—like Dickon—and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well! I'm well! I feel—I feel as if I want to shout out something—something thankful, joyful!

Oh, what a queer house this is! Mary said. What a queer house! Everything is a kind of secret.

I'm reading more than ever. I've started on the left wall of the Carnegie Library and plan to read my way around the room.

Never lose your childish innocence. It's the most important thing.

I never saw the necessity to attend all those classes, so many days a week, or purchase unreadable texts when so much fiction and poetry waited in the bookstore.

Travel is a journey into one's own ignorance.

Tobin, my man, you are going to learn about chickens. And when you to learn about chickens, you will learn about life.