Quotes About Curiosity

The fascination of the abomination—you know.

it is before you—smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, 'Come and find out.' This one was almost featureless, as if still in the

Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps…At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth…True, by this time it was not a blank space anymore. It had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery–a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness.

skirts of the unknown, and the white men rushing out of a tumble-down hovel, with great gestures

At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look like that) I would put my finger on it and say, "When I grow up I will go there.

I remembered the old doctor —'It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.' I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

Senti que estava me tornando cientificamente interessante.

brillaban como discos de mica, con curiosidad, aunque manteniendo su general

The world is to the young.

Cuando era un muchacho, me apasionaban los mapas. Podía pasar horas mirando Sudamérica, África o Australia inmerso en los placeres de la exploración. En aquella época quedaban muchos lugares desconocidos en la tierra, y cuando veía en un mapa alguno que pareciera particularmente atractivo (aunque todos lo parecen), ponía el dedo sobre él y decía: "Cuando sea mayor iré allí".

unknown; continents

One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And what is there? Who is there?—there beyond that field, that tree, that roof lit up by the sun? No one knows, but one wants to know. You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death.

If the novel is an instrument of discovery, what it sets out to discover are bits of that still unsolvable and greatest of all great mysteries, human nature.

There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Who is Spain? Why is Hitler? Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did. Soon the only people attending were those who never asked questions, and the sessions were discontinued altogether, since Clevinger, the corporal and Colonel Korn agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to the riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall?

Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. Colonel

was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything. Colonel Cathcart and Lieutenant

it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything

agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.