Quotes About Curiosity

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

There is a wonderful word, why? , that children use. All children. When they stop using it, the reason, too often, is that no one bothered to answer them, no one tried to keep alive one of the most important attributes a person can have: interest in the world around him.

But the withholding of information from a child either frustrates him or makes him seek it for himself. And the trouble with the latter method is that it is apt to make the child feel both guilty and dishonest.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Lila shook her head skeptically. She was trying to understand, we were both trying to understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.

Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it.

I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels.

it's good to be afraid. You need to be afraid even when there's no need, it keeps you alert. The bond with known spaces, with secure affections, yielded to curiosity about what might happen. Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many.

I hated the idea that he knew everything about me while I knew little or nothing of him. I felt like someone who is blind and knows that he is being observed by the very people he would like to spy on in every detail.

I felt a sensation that later in my life was often repeated: the joy of the new.

Lei era così, rompeva equilibri solo per vedere in quali altri modi poteva ricomporli.

Quieres toda la vida a personas que nunca sabes realmente quiénes son

In the crush men used the women to play silent games with themselves. One stared ironically at a dark-haired girl to see if she would lower her gaze. One, with his eyes, caught a bit of lace between two buttons of a blouse, or harpooned a strap. Others passed the time looking out the window into cars for a glimpse of an uncovered leg, the play of muscles as a foot pushed break or clutch, a hand absentmindedly scratching the inside of a thigh.

Por qué te ha gustado? —le preguntó Nino. —Todavía no sé si me ha gustado. —Pero te ha intrigado. —Me ha hecho pensar. [...]

Experimentei algo que depois, ao longo de minha vida, se repetiu frequentemente: a alegria do novo

I hope that in the free time of old age, the wonder will return.

Queres bem para toda a vida a pessoas que nunca chegas a saber quem realmente são.

curiosity is the greatest virtue, just as wisdom is the goal of every desire.

Wer suchet, der findet Anstößiges, auf das er insgeheim hofft.

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

Relearn astonishment.

A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

That's what I always tell myself when I'm being fact-checked, and some detail I was attached to turns out not to be true. I'm initially disappointed, and maybe discouraged that now there's more work for me to do, but I know that 99.9% of the time there's actually something there, in the truth, that's more interesting than whatever I or anyone else can make up.