Quotes About Curiosity

It is a shame that so few have the time or inclination for scholarship these days. There is much entertainment to be afforded in perusing the mistakes of our forbears.

So. Are you going to see him again? Technically, I haven't seen him at all . . . (Heroine is blind - LOL)

You seem to be developing a real talent for finding dead people, Ophelia.

You really think there's something back there? Something we don't know here? Jacob's

Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?

God! Whose hand was I holding?

I wondered about going down to the creek, but I had no reason to suppose that the creek would even be there, since I never visited it on Tuesday mornings.

Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess, they all went together to find a bird's nest...

It was probable that everyone on Pepper Street knew that Miss Fielding and Mr. Donald were, oddly, friends, but it is certain that no one was particularly interested in it. Both Miss Fielding and Mr. Donald were so exactly the sort of people who want to hide, that the neighborhood was only thankful to have them hiding together, instead of intruding their modesty on busier people.

wondered about going down to the creek, but I had no reason to suppose that the creek would even be there, since I never visited it on Tuesday mornings;

Ich werde so lange im Haus herumlaufen, bis ich in zehn von neun Fällen den Ort finde, wo es was zu essen gibt.

Hill House went dancing,' Theodora said, 'taking us along a mad midnight fling. At least I think it was dancing; it might have been turning somersaults.

They spoke lightly, quickly, and gave one another fast, hidden, little curious glances, each of them wondering what secret terror had been tapped in the others, what changes might show in face or gesture, what unguarded weakness might have opened the way to ruin. "Did

Do you think that woman really means to make us a soufflé? Here is certainly a soufflé dish, and eggs and cheese—

They walked over to it and Brad bent down gingerly: It's a leg all right, he said.

What are you looking for back there?" said Mama. "Yesterday's snow?

Once you have the solution, the problem might not be interesting.

To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

The great question that has never been answered , and which I have not yet been able to answer , despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul , is What does a woman want?

Children have no fear of their dolls coming to life, they may even desire it.

I am not really a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, and not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador...with the curiosity, the boldness, and the tenacity that belong to that type of person.

The threat to the conditions of his existence through the actual or expected arrival of a new child, the fear of the loss in care and love which is connected with this event, cause the child to become thoughtful and sagacious. Corresponding with the history of this awakening, the first problem with which it occupies itself is not the question as to the difference between the sexes, but the riddle: from where do children come?

Another friend of mine, whose insatiable scientific curiosity has impelled him to the most out-of-the-way researches and to the acquisition of encyclopaedic knowledge, has assured me that the Yogi by their practices of withdrawal from the world, concentrating attention on bodily functions, peculiar methods of breathing, actually are able to produce new sensations and diffused feelings in themselves which he regards as regressions to primordial, deeply buried mental states.