Quotes About Curiosity

All around me the world lies like an immense hypothesis that I no longer verify.

I had to call the past to life, and illuminate every corner of the five continents, descend to the centre of the earth and make the circuit of the moon and stars

On n'a jamais fini d'apprendre parce qu'on n'a jamais fini d'ignorer.

She is twelve years old, and her story is written in the heavens; she will discover it day after day without shaping it; she is curious but frightened when she thinks about this life whose every step is planned in advance and toward which every day irrevocably moves her

All around me the world lies like an immense hypothesis that I can no longer verify.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is to running.

And when Elmer was about to slip out to the kitchen with her to make lemonade, Benham held him by demanding, 'What do you think of John Wesley's doctrine of perfection?' 'Oh, it's absolutely sound and proven,' admitted Elmer, wondering what the devil Mr. Wesley's doctrine of perfection might be.

I wouldn't care whether it was a laboratory or a carnival. But it's merely safe. Tell me, Mr. Pollock, what is the matter with Gopher Prairie?

He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new day.

She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.

With all his amateurish fumbling, Martin had one characteristic without which there can be no science: a wide-ranging, sniffing, snuffling, undignified, unselfdramatizing curiosity, and it drove him on.

They never learned whether she was in trade, living on alimony, or possessed of a family income. Sam suspected that she was an international spy. She was a pleasant woman, and very clever. She talked about herself constantly, and never told anything whatever about herself

and every one desired to know of him only two things: Was this his first visit to England? and How long would he stay? And they didn't seem to care so very much about either. He wondered how many times he himself had asked foreign visitors to the Revelation plant--Britishers, Swedes, Germans, Frenchmen-- whether this was their first visit to America, and How long did they plan to stay?

She knew the exaltation of starting out in the fresh morning for places she had never seen, without the bond of having to return at night.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Como a las polillas, a todos nos gusta revolotear en torno a la luz.

but still we may as well learn all there is to be learned.

One night - it was in June, '89 - there came a ring to my bell, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn, and glances at the clock.

What... is the wind in that door?

Mr. Oldbuck had been so much struck with the deportment of the fisherman and his mother, that, moved by compassion, and perhaps also, in some degree, by that curiosity which induces us to seek out even what gives us pain to witness, he preferred a solitary walk by the coast, for the purpose of again visiting the cottage as he passed.

rumore di gatto, barba di donna, radici di montagna, tendini d'orso, respiro di pesce e sputo d'uccello.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Un petit échantillon

Never assume that what you know is all there is to know.