Quotes About Curiosity

Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through "Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea," which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

Maggie Tulliver, you perceive, was by no means that well trained, well-informed young person that a small female of eight or nine necessarily is in these days; she had only been to school a year at St. Ogg's, and had so few books that she sometimes read the dictionary; so that in travelling over her small mind you would have found the most unexpected ignorance as well as unexpected knowledge.

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.

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

I found the stock market very intriguing because prices used to fluctuate, I used to wonder why the price fluctuates.

I was always curious about, like, how does hot sauce work? Growing up I used to wonder, 'If I touched it, was it hot?'

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

It's important always to have a sense of wonder.

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder.

I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable?

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?