Quotes About Curiosity

New roads demand a hoopak," was a popular saying among kenderkind. It was always followed immediately by another of their sayings: "No road is ever old.

Blasted doorknob of a kender

When you're being looked at you can't look. To look is to feel curious, to be interested, to lower yourself. No one you look at is worth it.

I don't want to be dead. I'm curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right?

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

No sé en qué consiste que soy naturalmente curioso; es un deseo de saberlo todo que nació conmigo, que siento bullir en todas mis venas, y que me obliga más de cuatro veces al día a meterme en rincones excusados por escuchar caprichos ajenos, que luego me proporcionan materia de diversión para aquellos ratos que paso en mi cuarto y a veces en mi cama sin dormir; en ellos recapacito lo que he oído, y río como un loco de los locos que he escuchado.

The people who were downstairs drinking ran upstairs for a better view of the upcoming fight.

Where do starfish come from?" asked Sam. "From the sky," answered Stella. "Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea." "Weren't the stars afraid of drowning?" asked Sam. "No," said Stella. "They all learned how to swim.

Curiosity. It was Oliver Sacks who first made me reflect on curiosity as a form of compassion. An ingenious and creative neurologist now well-known for his "clinical tales," he begins his work as diagnostician and healer with the implicit question 'What is it like to be you?

Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

Art to me is a question mark.

Art should never be an answer but a question.

She said, "I don't know why I come here. That's a fact." He shrugged. "Since you are here, maybe you could tell me a little about yourself?" She shook her head. "I don't talk about that. I just been wondering lately why things happen the way they do." "Oh!" he said. "Then I'm glad you have some time to spare. I've been wondering about that more or less my whole life.

It seems as though the conclusions are never as interesting as the questions. I mean, they're not what you remember.

Children seem to think that every pleasant thing has to be a surprise.

You are standing up on the seat of your swing and sailing higher than you really ought to, with that bold, planted stance of a sailor on a billowy sea...You appear to be altogether happy. I remember those first experiments with fundamental things, gravity and light, and what an absolute pleasure they were.

There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them

Everything always bears looking into, astonishing as that fact is.

She used to ask herself, What more could I wish? But she always distrusted that question, because she knew there were limits to her experience that precluded her knowing what there was to be wished.

When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists.

People talk about how wonderful the world must seem to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives. That's clearer to me every day. Each morning I am like Adam waking up in Eden, amazed at the cleverness of my hands and at the brilliance pouring into my mind through my eyes.

I was trying to remember what birds did before there were telephone wires.

It was strange to wonder what she had really forgotten.

To me, going to the unknown is absolutely rule number one.