Quotes About Curiosity

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

My life has not been predictable. I never would have imagined I'd be living where I'm living, doing what I'm doing or married to an American guy. I'm interested to see what will happen next!

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

Life exists to be a mystery.

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

Each day is a start of a new adventure, and I eagerly look forward to today.

Even if there is intelligent life somewhere, which perhaps there is, I'm agnostic about it, I don't know.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

Life was a lot more adventurous before caller I.D.

All my life I have been restless-- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.

The best education I've had in my life is to travel.

The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

We're all a little mad, my friend. Keeps life interesting.

I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on.

I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

Last summer, when he thought I wasn't looking, I observed Cubby telling one of the neighborhood six-year-olds that there were dragons living in the storm drains, under our street. 'We feed them meat...and then they don't get hungry and blow fire and roast us.' Little James listened closely, with a very serious expression on his face. Then he ran home to get some hot dogs from his mother.