Quotes About Curiosity

There were readers who could expect no more from life, and just dared to look in books to see how much they had missed.

You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that.

It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

I can't help thinking -- Suppose the world was made for happiness after all.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

Because they have never tried to get to know her. People are afraid of things they don't understand.

His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.

It is when children start to question their happiness that they lose it and grow up.

Marguerite was not so sure. What did human beings know about anything? Their own existence was still a mystery to them, and of the existences beyond their own they knew about as much as field mice know of the world above the heads of the bending ears of corn.

Must we go in?" asked Margary. "Yes," said Mary. "We are only given times like these so that we can go back again. Come along." And she parted the trailing branches of the willow and led the way out.

He saw a boy pull something long and squirming from the ground and pop it into his mouth.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Forgiveness, she was thinking, was in some terrible, overeager way, a lack of curiosity. It was a big, powerful hose that washed everything away. She had, in effect, turned the hose on herself. "Of course I forgive you." As eager to reconcile as she has been in the schoolyard and in her first marriage too. Only to think that now she should not have been so hasty. Forgiveness was the premature end to the story. She had skipped to the last page instead of reading the book through.

MR LEWIS Mr Brightman, would you have

To see things in surprising ways, you have to extend yourself a bit.

A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.

Es war herrlich, frei zu sein, ihr Zuhause verlassen zu können, allmählich Dinge herauszufinden über Menschen, die nicht zur Familie gehörten. Alles kann passieren, dachte sie, wirklich alles! Und ich will auch, dass es passiert - was immer es ist.

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it. my world just hasn't discovered the twist.

Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a map of no earthly geography." -

Shift laughed. 'The ways in which you want to think badly of me are interesting.' 'Who eats mice?

and handjobs on crows.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.