Quotes About Curiosity

I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind.

The temperament of a dandelion or cosmic preservation. Where does wonder begin?

That Hadrian's profound Hellenophilia and his love of travelling, the two major driving impulses of his reign, were closely linked is clear. That his early experiences of Greece were formative in a different way – one which was to have considerable resonances for his spiritual curiosity and what was perhaps an innate predisposition to melancholy – is less well known.

To the Romans, Egypt was exciting: incomprehensible, with a pleasing hint of malignity.

What is it like to be you? I need to say: This is the question that has made me a writer; always that deep desire to know what it feels like to be a different person.

who would mark a sweater, steal a bra, take one shoe?

What a strange thing life is.

I need to say: This is the question that has made me a writer; always that deep desire to know what it feels like to be a different person.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

Bacon's curiosity makes him sound amazingly modern, and in many ways he was. But his writings look back as much as they look forward, and the figure to whom he owes his greatest debt is without doubt Aristotle, whom he discovered through his admiration for Grosseteste.5 Aristotle's works unlocked for Bacon a world of scientific investigation, above all a method of exploring the wonders of nature and understanding its underlying principles

This posed a dilemma, which Bill Knudsen summed up simply and succinctly. "Progress is only made when fear is overcome by curiosity," he said.

Bill Knudsen summed up simply and succinctly. "Progress is only made when fear is overcome by curiosity," he said. "If you are curious enough, you will not have any fear.

its passion for organizing and systematizing knowledge.

Spreken over iets wat je niet begrijpt is onnozel, ernaar vragen slim. Wat is wetenschap anders dan uitkomen voor je onwetendheid? Je kunt immers alleen iets leren waar je nog geen weet van hebt.

Plezier, ze ze, kan een mens alleen beleven aan iets wat hem weinig interesseert.

To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.

He dived deeper and deeper into his books; he had taken all obsolescence to be his province; in his disgust at the stupid usual questions, "Will it pay?" "What good is it?" and so forth, he would only read what was uncouth and useless.

I have always been fond of diving into Queer Street for my amusement, and I found my knowledge of that locality and its inhabitants very useful. It

As I glanced up I had looked straight towards the last house in the row before me, and in an upper window of that house I had seen for some short fraction of a second a face. It was the face of a woman, and yet it was not human.

Arthur Machen