Quotes About Curiosity

Other people's houses were always fascinating. As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.

Now that she was conscious there was no end to her questions and exclamations, for Dot was a born traveler, meant to go places, unlike us.

Budgie lay slack-jawed on stained pillows, squinting in perplexity at the stack of plastic containers in one corner. It was like he'd been mildly puzzled to death.

Why would she waste her time figuring out men when she was a person who had slept with a bear?

It was like he'd been mildly puzzled to death.

When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens. (Revival Road

Mystery is not a passive condition. To see a thing so perfectly what it is-- doesn't it make you want to hold it, to marvel, to touch, its answered question?

Books. Why? So I can talk to other humans without having to meet them. Fear of boredom. So what I will never be alone.

The more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.

I'm going to take you somewhere. It's time you began to see the world. You're eleven years old and it's time you saw something.

WHEN I GROW UP I'M GOING TO FIND OUT EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYBODY AND PUT IT ALL IN A BOOK. THE BOOK IS GOING TO BE CALLED SECRETS BY HARRIET M. WELSCH. I WILL ALSO HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS IN IT AND MAYBE SOME MEDICAL CHARTS IF I CAN GET THEM.

She never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought; I could always learn.

I want to know everything, everything, screeched Harriet suddenly, lying back and bouncing up and down on the bed. Everything in the world, everything, everything. I will be a spy and know everything. It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Harriet never minded admitting when she didn't know something. 'So what,' she thought, 'I can always learn.

He's fiddling around in his pocket...nothing to worry about...all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets...a pistol? an erection?

There's something very pleasant about a language you don't understand... It's like a fog swirling around in our thoughts... It's nice, it's like a dream, there's really nothing better... It's fine as long as the words stay in the dream...

Work?" Sixtus asked.

As a librarian I learned one of life's great truths: you don't have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

What is it really like to be engaged? asked Anne curiously. Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to, answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.

I love books. I hope to grow up to have lots of them.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?

It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it is such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then would there?

If you don't believe things, you'll never have any fun. The more things you can believe the more interesting life is, as you say yourself. Too much incredulity makes it a poor thing.