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Quotes About Curiosity

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.
~ Bailey Chase
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
~ Barbra Streisand
Life is short, so I am one of those people - and luckily my girlfriend is too - who wants to live everywhere. I don't know how long I'll be there, but I like it right now.
~ Benjamin Booker
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
~ Benoit Mandelbrot
I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.
~ Bernhard Schlink
But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.
~ Bertrand Russell
I like to go where the life is.
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.
~ Carl Sagan
I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.
~ Carl Sagan
All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.
~ Charles de Lint
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
~ Charles Dickens
I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.
~ Charles Kuralt
Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.
~ Chris Rock
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.
~ Christopher McDougall
I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.
~ Coleman Barks
It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.
~ Edward Gibbon
Who, or why, or which, or what,Is the Akond of Swat?
~ Edward Lear
Instead of describing ADD as an inability to concentrate, this model presents it as the ability to concentrate on everything. The world always is alive and ripe with sources of interest.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
If we weren't so dreamy and curious we could stay on track and never get distracted.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
But because kids today have so little free time, and because they're always surrounded by media, they don't explore what's off the beaten path. They want their fun to be quick and easy. The art of being bored is lost." . . . There's no question that Klauber's findings are
~ Edward M. Hallowell
Even awake we're dreaming, always creating, always searching for some mud pie to turn into pumpkin apple chiffon.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
As far as I can see, many people who don't have ADD are charter members of the Society of the Congenitally Boring. And
~ Edward M. Hallowell
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
~ Edward Norton