Quotes About Curiosity

Strangely enough, he felt his fear whisked away like a swarm of gnats caught in the wind, replaced by an intense curiosity.

What are those?" he whispered as loudly as he dared,

Despite everything he'd learned and witnessed firsthand, it called to him as much as hunger or thirst. A movement up on the left wall of the South Door caught his attention. Startled, he reacted quickly, looking just in time to see a flash of silver. A patch of ivy shook

What's the detector?" Thomas asked. "It detects stuff," Brenda replied curtly. Thomas wrinkled his face at her.

You must be talking about my new friend. The woman named Tilda. - Olympias

When they didn't answer, he couldn't help but take a peek. They were whispering to each other, stealing kisses between words. Something like burning oil filled his stomach.

Someone should go take a look. See what's in it. He said it, but he really didn't want to be the one to do it. Let's go together, she said easily. She surprised him with her courage. Sometimes you have the worst ideas, he responded. He'd tried to make it feel sarcastic, but he knew the truth of it far more than he wanted to admit to himself. He was terrified.

Mark had so many questions, he couldn't get them out fast enough.

Thomas still didn't understand why she was being so touchy with him.

And how did we get here?" Bryson added. "What happened to that town we were in? Where are we? And while we're at it, where can I get a burger?

Thomas remembered the envelope in his pocket, a thing he'd almost forgotten about until now. His fingers twitched to pull it out and read it. No one said anything. Newt's expression darkened.

Newt shushed them again. "That's not bloody half of it," he said, then pointed down into the Box. "I think she's dead.

If I were going to tell one of my sons how to possess the world, I would simply bring him into my house, show him that solid wall of books, and say to him: 'the secret is in there somewhere, and even if you never find out what it is, you will still have come closer.

Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.

You have been fine-tuned over millions of years to desire to be in harmony with the natural world, to be curious about your own mind, and to recognize the essential unity of which you are a part. Whether or not you ever choose to use psychedelic experiences as part of your self-discovery, your decision should be an informed one.

If it's a drug, then it is the best drug. Good coffee makes us curious about pleasure. It makes us who we wish to be.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

What color is the wind? Blew.

Chance I is completely impersonal; you can't influence it. Chance II favors those who have a persistent curiosity about many things coupled with an energetic willingness to experiment and explore. Chance III favors those who have a sufficient background of sound knowledge plus special abilities in observing, remembering, recalling, and quickly forming significant new associations. Chance IV favors those with distinctive, if not eccentric hobbies, personal lifestyles, and motor behaviors.

I'm interested in things that are none of my business, and I'm bored by things that are important to know." —Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes strip cartoon, 1994)

It is perhaps too much the case with the multitude in every nation, that as they know little beyond themselves, and their own affairs, so out of this narrow sphere of knowledge, they think nothing worth knowing.

and there is no one to whom you can look for an explanation of why they are doing it, no one to whom you can go up and take him by the lapels and shake him and say What the fuck are you doing? The entire thing had been done by dead men. Who done it? Noman done it.

But then, of course, one can peek through the fingers, which is not only pleasurable but a lesson in practical optics.

Mistakes are the portals for discovery.