Quotes About Curiosity

My way of finding a book is to go on Emma Roberts' reading list.

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

I'm always reading books.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

I'm curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.

I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Watch a child play, and you will see real power. They are fearless.

The first time I got into astrology was being in New York. I was like, 'Oh, this is a real thing here!' Now, I'll Google what your sign is and what my sign is to see the predictions of friendship, and I find that really cool. But that's the most I know.

There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking, 'This is pretty awesome - is this really a job you can have?' This led me toward a career as an academic, although it took me until college to realise that economics was the right field.

I realise that I'm a bit of a dabbler but it's nice to do stuff that's different.

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

It's not me being rude or disrespectful but as I've got older I've realised I can question people or ask why. Maybe in the past I've been scared to ask them or scared of the reaction of what I would get back.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

I Google everyone I meet and I look up designers.

I guess I'm going to have to go Google myself and see why people think I shouldn't be coaching.