Quotes About Curiosity

That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information.

Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.

As usual, the girls were more interesting to look at.

I wanted to look through the telescope, but felt embarrassed—it felt like looking in someone's medicine cabinet. The medicine cabinet of God. Well, and what would change if I saw some stars?

And rightly. Isn't there something to be researched, in every corner of God's creation? Isn't that what you've found, miss, in your travels?

I had often flipped through a calendar wondering on which of the 366 days (counting February 29) I would die, but it had never once occurred to me to wonder whether I had already met the first person I would have sex with.

Sometimes, when I caught that glimmer of promise, I tried to touch myself to see if I could have an orgasm. It never quite worked. Afterward, when Mesut had gone into that weird trance, I wondered if I should get up and go to the bathroom and try to do it by myself in peace. But it always felt like more hassle than it was worth.

Why was it so hard not to glance through an open door, even when you didn't want to see inside?

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.

Parfois monter un escalier est la seule façon de savoir où il mène.

There is no more powerful skill for success in any field than knowing how to ask the right questions.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

You ask What is life? That is the same as asking What is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

Life consists of burning up questions.

books, pocket-size jewels, open up like doors to worlds you never knew existed.

El que busca lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

Quien busque lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

Per conoscere un luogo non è sempre necessario esserci stati.