Quotes About Curiosity

A weird twist in the fabric of the universe

How could I have known, back then, that the white house across the park would belong to Cassidy Thorpe? That out of a row of nearly identical McMansions, there'd be one window in particular I searched out every night before bed, looking for secret messages?

I climbed into my car and started to head home, my visor down against the glare of the sun. But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down different road.

I'd never before walked out of a classroom with my mind racing because of what I'd learned, and I wanted to savor the feeling as long as possible. It was as though my brain was suddenly capable of considering the world with far more complexity , as though there was so much more to see and do and learn.

Where do you learn this stuff?" "Don't you ever get bored?" Cassidy asked. "Yeah, but I don't Google 'German insults.'" "Why not? It's fascinating.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Eugene

No es la respuesta que ilumina, sino la pregunta." Eugene Ionesco

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen

the first scientists and the first mathematicians.

LIBRARY, where they keep the truth serum, and the magic carpets" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165

READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167

Consolémonos por ignorar las relaciones que pueden existir entre una araña y un anillo de Saturno, y sigamos examinando lo que está a nuestro alcance. Voltaire.

Necesitaba de la intriga tanto como de los alimentos.

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

An open mind is not an empty one.

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the future entrancing each other.

Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend.

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure...