Quotes About Curiosity

Dans la vie, il y a deux catégories d'individus : Ceux qui regardent le monde tel qu'il est et se demandent pourquoi. Ceux qui imaginent le monde tel qu'il devrait être et qui se disent : pourquoi pas ?

Ves cosas y dices, ¿por qué? Pero yo sueño cosas que nunca fueron y digo, ¿por qué no?.

Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not?

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?

Don't just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

What wine goes with Captain Crunch?

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill

A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them.

Esther always avoided asking questions of Lydley, who found an answer as she found a key, by pouring out a pocketful of miscellanies.

A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest.

Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years?

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

She wished, poor child, to be wise herself.

The attitudes of receptivity are various, and Will had sincerely tried many of them. He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in that form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint, and then supped on lobster; he had made himself ill with doses of opium. Nothing greatly original had resulted from these measures; and

Stupefaction is not resignation; and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance,–to shut up all the avenues by which the life of your fellow-men might become known to you.

with the eager interest of a fresh young nature to which every variety in experience is an epoch.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives," he interposed, in his measured way. "Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.