Quotes About Curiosity

Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up

Still the rain kept pouring, falling on my ears,And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain.

A Close Encounter ... You are welcome to visit our land, if you can. Step inside, Earthling. Do not be afraid. We have ideas to exchange and thoughts to trade. There is much to be learned from each other. ... Adrian Rumble

Here he employed himself in reading St. Augustine and the school men; but, in turning over the leaves of the library, he accidentally found a copy of the Latin Bible, which he had never seen before. This raised his curiosity to a high degree: he read it over very greedily, and was amazed to find what a small portion of the scriptures was rehearsed to the people.

Who are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and $1,000 for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain't in on it?

Quick point: If you've been trained on the "Five Whys" of problem solving or selling, that's not what we're talking about here. Those are useful and appropriate. What we're referring to are questions that begin with "Why" and have the "poor me" tone that leads straight to the classic pity party.) Anyone

There is a man you see in casinos, usually small, usually dressed by JCPenney, usually not a gambler, who creeps around in soft shoes with a smile of fascination stuck on his face and the body language of a Peeping Tom. He dreams of sniffing your armpits. Or he wants to sit where you just sat. All while he wears his JCPenney costume and speaks in harmless drivel.

everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...

I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...

don't be afraid of going by a way you've never gone - that's the way we're all going...

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

Have you really read all those books in your room?" Alaska laughing- Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer since I was little, I've gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

From this", says Schrödinger, "I learned many things, but not religion." His favourite question was, "Sir, do you really believe that?

If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . .

I had never thought of Marley as any kind of model, but sitting there sipping my beer, I was aware that maybe he held the secret for a good life. Never slow down, never look back, live each day w/ adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness.

Never slow down, never look back, live each day with adolescent verve and spunk and curiosity and playfulness. If you think you're still a young pup, then maybe you are, no matter what the calendar says.

In many ways, history both begins and ends with questions; which is to say that it never really ends, but is a process.

But somewhere deep inside him a glass tube clanked.

sympathetic. "Look, Clyde. We never found Alyssa. And the way this case has unfolded . . . people are asking questions." "About what?

A cat may look on a king.