Quotes About Curiosity

Scott Weidensaul

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

One of the most common questions writers are asked is Where do you get your ideas? But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno

Abandoning the flatland ages past, And finding mountains much more to their taste, They toil in labyrinthine caverns, dense With gases that are metal's noble source; 10770 They separate, combine, test, trying to Discover things undreamt of hitherto. By spirit power, subtly, they construct Forms clear and crystalline, without defect; Then in the crystal's eternal silence peering, Perceive what in the upper world is occurring.

Nas?l da çocuktur insan! Bir bak?? için nedir bu açgözlülük! Nas?l da çocuktur insan!

A young man who is full of presentiments believes that he can account for much and discover even more in mysteries, and that he must work by means of mysteries.

The highest achievement of the human being as a thinking being is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

m-am gandit mult la nazuinta omului de a se intinde, de a face noi descoperiri, de a rataci incoace si incolo; pe urma, la inclinarea lui de a se supune de bunavoie ingradirii, de a pasi pe drumul obisnuintei, fara sa-i pese de ceea ce e la dreapta sau la stanga lui.

Ich habe allerlei nachgedacht, über die Begier im Menschen, sich auszubreiten, neue Entdeckungen zu machen, herumzuschweifen; und dann wieder über den inneren Trieb, sich der Einschränkung willig zu ergeben, in dem Gleise der Gewohnheit so hinzufahren und sich weder um Rechts noch um Links zu bekümmern.

I have often reflected, dear Wilhelm, on the eagerness of men to wander about and make new discoveries, and on that secret urge which afterwards makes them return to their narrow circle, conform to the customary path, and pay no attention to the right or the left.

Echa mano de la vida en su totalidad. Todos la viven, pero no muchos la conocen; cuando les asombre, les parecerá interesante.

There's much I know: yet I'd know everything. (600)

Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement. ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of Colours . (The M.I.T. Press; 1st edition March 15, 1970) Originally published 1810.

Uwa?amy, ?e cz?owiekowi odpowiada przypuszczenie, ?e istnieje co? niepoznawalnego, lecz nie powinien on ustanawia? granic dla swych poszukiwa?

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Auf diesem Basar herumzugondolieren und auf die Frosch- und Spinnenjagd mit großer Freundlichkeit auszuziehen.

Eigentlich weiß man nur wenn man wenig weiß - mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel.

S? ridic perdeaua ?i s? trec dup? ea, asta e tot! ?i ce atâta ?ov?ial? ?i t?r?g?neal?! Pentru c? nu se ?tie ce este dincolo de ea? O însu?ire caracteristic? a spiritului nostru este aceea de-a b?nui c? e numai tulburare ?i întunecime acolo unde nu ?tim l?murit ce este.

What ball?" Selena gasped, truly surprised. He was not foxed, and he was not being blasé. The infuriating man really had no idea what she was talking about.

Don't worry about selling the company. If you ask great questions, your interviews will do that for you.

Many strange things happen in this world