Quotes About Curiosity

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

All men desire to know

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

All men by nature desire knowledge...

The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives.

ALWAYS FULL OF QUESTIONS...How many times must I tell you, better to listen than to talk. But you're always talking...asking useless things...whatever for?" "Because I want to know.

The English language doesn't give us many words to describe the feeling of reaching out to someone from another world, and of hav- ing that interest welcomed. Something of its own kind, mutual, is created. What a gift.

I should have had to look under its

The produce section of your local grocery store is a great place for experimenting. Have her feel the difference between a kiwi or a peach and a coconut or a pineapple. Let

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

To be making books for children is to be in a sort of state of grace.

When the boys come, instead of buying Barbie dolls, all of a sudden you're into trucks and remote controls, cars and tanks. You buy building blocks and build castles and locomotives. You get into knives and later take them shooting with pistols, shotguns, and rifles. All of which made me very happy.

Fake breasts: Women always say, "You know they're not real, don't you? She bought them." Do you know I don't care if they're real? I want to buy some, too. For the house, put them in different rooms. And on the dashboard of the car, for when I'm driving.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Kids do say the darndest things

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

We speed past the questions that would help us get to know another person's story and instead immediately look to the places of greatest difference and disagreement.

And to face this truth means defeating the fear of your own demise—literal and professional. This fear handcuffs you to your fluid intelligence curve. If you can master it, the reward is incalculable: it will set you free. But the only way to do it is by facing it head-on.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. [IRC discussion at Scifi.com, 1 November 1996]

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.