Quotes About Curiosity

Downsiders," said the clown, "never look up.

is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Might

Aristotle famously said, "The more you know, the more you know you don't know

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means to his pleasure, and soon you will not be able to keep him from it.

Mais c'est comme ça, la vie : si vous rencontrez un être humain dans la foule, suivez-le... suivez-le.

Não se esforça a curiosidade, desperta-se

Non sapevo, leggendoli, che mi istruivo, che quei libri avrebbero risvegliato in me una fame che sarebbe sopravvissuta persino al loro oblio.

cette pensée profonde de Clara: "Il y a toutes les histoires du monde dans une langue qu'on ne connaît pas.

Our reasons for reading what we do are as eccentric as our reasons for living as we do.

Ce n'était pas seulement leur savoir que ces professeurs partageaient avec nous, c'était le désir même du savoir ! (p. 262)

Ma è così la vita: se incontri un essere umano nella folla, seguilo... seguilo.

Signorine, non è certo sotto le specie del vocabolario e della sintassi che la Letteratura inizia a sedurci. Ricordate semplicemente come le Lettere entrano nella nostra vita. Nella più tenera età, appena non ci viene più cantata la canzone che fa sorridere e addormentare il neonato, si apre l'era dei racconti. Il bambino li beve come prima beveva il latte. Pretende il seguito e la ripetizione dell'incanto; è un pubblico implacabile ed eccelso.

Quando si è assaggiato il fascino e il conforto della grande letteratura, se ne vuole sempre di più. Si comincia allora a leggere per proprio conto...

les profs ne sont pas préparés à la collision entre le savoir et l'ignorance, voilà tout ! (p. 290)

As I wandered the streets in a desolate funk, I would ask myself the impossible, the embarrassing, the ultimate childish question of Why? - Why this city? Why this life? Why anything? Of course I knew that "why" was a question you were supposed to stop asking around the age of ten but I couldn't free myself from it.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.

La ciencia nos ofrece una nueva visión del mundo que ha liberado el espíritu humano, o al menos tiene el potencial de hacerlo. Lo más importante de la ciencia es la ciencia misma, es decir, la forma de proceder que nos ha acercado a un profundo entendimiento de cómo es el mundo.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Natalie and Safia had never gone to L.L.Bean. 57 THE WHITE

He used to say, 'Never be satisfied with what you know, only with what more you can find out.

I sat still, my head down, staring at a spot between the numbered tiles. I could feel his inquisitive brown eyes on me. Finally, I shrugged and said, 'I don't know.

Adults love to ask children idiotic questions so that we can chuckle when they give us idiotic answers.