Quotes About Curiosity

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

He had only one eye. How he had lost the other one I have never known.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity -- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

But that doesn't stop me from moving about him like a junior high girl lingering by the lifeguard station

The sky is turning from black to gray and I stop to remember this melancholy moment for my acting. I huddle on a bench in my big thrift-store overcoat and my painful hair, watching my breath make clouds and thinking Holden Caulfield-y thoughts, like how come you never see any baby pigeons? This is what those people on black-and-white French postcards must feel like. I find myself craving a cup of coffee and a cigarette despite the fact that I neither drink coffee nor smoke.

A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it.

Marc Aronson

I am a child who is getting on.

a truly great person has a profound curiosity about the world and the people in it, an interest that encompasses everything and everyone. Real curiosity, I now know, doesn't leave much room for judgement.

I lay in my bed, staring at the ceiling, wondering what kind of creature Curzon Dax was, to weave so tangled a web.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Learn to ask of all actions, "Why are they doing that?" Starting with your own.

Learn to ask of all questions, 'Why are they doing that?' Starting with your own.

As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed.

that thou be careful to prevent whatsoever is idle and impertinent: but especially, whatsoever is curious and malicious

No malogres la parte de vida que te queda en averiguar vidas ajenas, a no ser que te propongas algún fin útil a la comunidad.

If he be a stranger in the world, that knows not the things that are in it; why not be a stranger as well, that wonders at the the things that are done in it?

an introduction to Christian pluralism and the intellectual riches of the Christian tradition, but also to intellectual pluralism. I realized that there were no definitely settled ways of seeing life—of what is, what is real, and how, then, we should live. The notion that there was one "right" way of seeing things disappeared. This was enormously liberating, even if a bit alarming. But my curiosity was greater than my fear.

The notion that there was one "right" way of seeing things disappeared. This was enormously liberating, even if a bit alarming. But my curiosity was greater than my fear.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.