Quotes About Curiosity

The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.

The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

The minute you feel like there's nothing left to learn, whether it's with your career or life, you're done.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

If you don't talk to strangers, your life is so limited. If you're careful about what you eat, you'll never try anything adventurous.

I'm a creature who bores, easily. I could never do one job, for the rest of my life.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.