Quotes About Curiosity

Y es porque hay algo que no pueden ver que la gente cree que tiene que ser especial, porque la gente siempre piensa que hay algo especial en lo que no puede ver, como el lado oculto de la Luna, o el otro lado de un agujero negro, o en la oscuridad cuando se despierta por la noche y tiene miedo.

He had never spoken to Uncle Richard, but he knew that he was a radiologist who put tubes into people's groins and pushed them up into their brains to clear blockages like chimney sweeps did and this was a glorious idea.

said this. He kept on looking through

Fu tentato di iniziare un altro dei regali di Natale ancora non letti. Ma bisognava lasciare che l'atmosfera di un libro si diradasse, prima di buttarsi nel prossimo [...]

she watched the children the way a snake might watch a cat.

But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...

Lord alone knows." George stood up and dropped his empty mug into the sink. "The mystery of one's children is never-ending.

Una cosa es interesante porque pensamos en ella, no porque sea nueva.

And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of being new.

Maybe the answers weren't important. Maybe it was the asking which mattered. Not taking anything for granted. Maybe that's what stopped you growing old.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.

I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia.

At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart.

A friend once told me that I find my stories because I never learned to drive. It's true. I take the bus. I walk around. By being out there—not the driver of my story but the literal and figurative rider—I have the opportunity to see things that I would never otherwise see. I

Jamming was our ally. It made people curious about what we were hiding.

and the inexplicable prevalence of supernumerary testicles in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

Mütter Museum

It makes me wonder now, in middle age, if being spontaneous and kind and curious are all parts of our natural ability to swim.

An unread book is a world unexplored

I think a good novel makes the reader think not just about what happened, but about what is possible

No Islamic nation could have flown to the moon or invented the Internet, simply because for a millennium the culture has suppressed the curiosity necessary for such a venture.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?