Quotes About Curiosity

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn't frighten me any more

I had to cast out a good many lines, though, before I got what I wanted, and when I landed the fish I did not for a moment suppose it was my fish. But I listened to what I was told out of a constitutional liking for useless information, and I found myself in possession of a very curious story, though, as I imagined, not the story I was looking for.

All our skill at disproving things is like a wall we build between us and wonder. To jump that wall, you need a long running start.-The Tragedy of Arthur

What am I doing here?

Oh, see the tiger!" Johnnie Green shouted. "And the lions! And the monkeys! And the bear!" "See them!" Spot yelped. "I say, smell them!" He felt better when the animals in their cages had gone creaking past. And he forgot his uneasiness as he watched dozens of horses, ridden by folk whose bespangled clothes glittered in the sunlight.

Arthur Slade

One can never have too many books. Or read too many books.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine.

Alguien puede decirme qué diantre es eso? Y señaló hacia el valle con un dedo imperioso e imperial, el que había utilizado para señalar las Pirámides cuando aquello de los cuarenta siglos o -en otro orden de cosas- el catre a María Valewska.

desconfíen siempre vuestras mercedes de quien es lector de un solo libro.     Ignoro

En cuanto a mí, sólo sé que no sé nada. Y cuando quiero saber busco en los libros, a los que nunca falla la memoria.

El mundo está empedrado con preguntas sin respuesta.

Acudiendo a la cita como la mayor parte de las mujeres acudían a la primera cita: más por curiosidad y desafío que por deseo.

el don más preciado del nómada y el aventurero: la facilidad para entablar conversación con cualquier extraño, sobre todo si el extraño pertenecía al sexo opuesto.

Por aquí han pasado novedades editoriales cuya lectura emprendía con ilusión y curiosidad; pero, a medida que me hago mayor, me inclino más por los viejos conocidos, hermanos de la costa que nunca son del todo viejos porque tienen la cualidad de amoldarse, renovados, frescos y sabios, a la mirada cada vez más fatigada de este su lector. (Prologando «El enigma de las arenas» de Childers...)

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books--their memory never fails

Desconfíen siempre vuestras mercedes de quien es lector de un solo libro.

You do not die to know about death

They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone.

Every sense of progressing and moving ahead is backed by the fact that there is more to come to tell that you know nothing!

Out of many other things I have to figure out, the one on the brim is why I become so dramatic and ecstatic when it rains.

I just think it's funny the way my brain tries to make sense of strange places by imagining its people are familiar.