Quotes About Curiosity

I was still filled as before with an evil curiosity. There was a mystery about the existence of each one of them. I always felt that a part of their lives was concealed. What did they do when I was not there? I refused to believe that they had not better ways of amusing themselves. And I credited each of them with a secret which I pertinaciously tried to discover.

et quand tu m'auras lu, jette ce livre - et sors. Je voudrais qu'il t'eût donné le désir de sortir - sortir de n'importe où, de ta ville, de ta famille, de ta chambre, de ta pensée. N'emporte pas mon livre avec toi. ... Que mon livre t'enseigne à t'intéresser plus à toi qu'a lui même, - puis à tout le reste plus qu'à toi.

Am tr?it într-o uluire p?tima??.

Est-ce que vraiment, disait-elle, la terre est aussi belle que le racontent les oiseaux ?

There are more answers in heaven than questions on the lips of men.

There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.

In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.

It's invisible because it's a color beyond our range of sight. It must have stayed in here all these years. And it kills—it must—when its curiosity is satisfied." Swiftly she described the scene in the cabin and the strange behavior of the gem pile which had betrayed the creature to her. Cliff did not return his blaster to its holder. "Any more of them on board, d'you think?" He didn't look pleased at the prospect.

But—a spaceship! It was something that had so long been laughed to scorn. When men had failed to go farther into space after the initial excitement of the moon landings, space flight had become a matter for jeers.

Ni siquiera a mí?!

One day I saw that my friend had put a bowl, a cup, a teapot, and a square milk carton on the edge of a well, had filled them all with water, and was looking at them attentively. " 'What are you doing?' I asked him. And he answered me with a question in turn. " 'What shape is water?' " 'Water doesn't have any shape!' I said, laughing. 'It takes the shape you give it.

In questo 'Ndondò ha ragione. Non si tratta di doveroso interesse professionale, ma di profonda curiosità umana. Lui è fatto così. Di ogni suo paziente vorrebbe sapere tutto della sua vita privata, fin dalla nascita.

I so want to meet the other women. I hear their voices, their weeping. Maybe they can explain to me why we're here. Or maybe I don't want to know.

Nicole"—Trenton turned to

A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. He has to be a child. The only thing that matters is that he shouldn't become 'stuck' in childishness.

Words for completely novel concepts and technical breakthroughs are devised as soon as needed, explained with ease and absorbed with scarcely an effort by all who need them. This ability to innovate in language is crucial to every scientific advance, to our intellectual curiosity, to our originality as human individuals, because it is crucial to our ability to communicate new ideas and discoveries.

We are given no escape from ultimate questions. In one way or another they are in us, whether we like it or not. Scientific truth is exact, but it is incomplete.

East coasters ... attenders at the church of What Is

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. • Benjamin Franklin

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. Richard Feynman

What children do love is ghost stories.

I've got a lot to learn. I've got 101 books sitting by my bedside - piles of books - absolutely gripped.

Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

What does one ever ask an author except: "How?" And the answer, as Less well knows, is obvious: "Beats me!