Quotes About Curiosity

Oliver Davenant did not merely read books. He snuffed them up, took breaths of them into his lungs, filled his eyes with the sight of the print and his head with the sound of words.

So, Iften is of the Pig. That explains a lot." Keir's head jerked up, and he laughed out loud.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

Emmy and I are still Habte Sadek's favorite foreigners, and it is all because I wanted to look at his feet when I was eleven years old! But it never hurts to be polite to people.

Elizabeth Yates

One travels to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Io sono tutta presa dalla curiosità per questo futuro incerto, dalla sensazione di essere ormai libera dagli ostacoli degli uomini; tutta presa dalla gioia di sentire che ciascun giorno, d'ora in poi, sarà nuovo, e che nessuno di essi sarà uguale all'altro; tutta presa dalla decisione di osservare, d'ora in poi, una sola regola: quella di camminare diritto davanti a me.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

What is it he doesn't want people to see by keeping the windows covered? It makes a person wonder. I guess

If she didn't go, she'd wonder

It's so weird all the different names they have for groups of animals. They have pride of lions, school of fish, rack of lamb. . . .

I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clapping?

Let's try and pay more attention to what's around us. Look up. Look down - if only so you don't trip. Ask questions. You know how kids always ask "why?" Ask why. Then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. Don't stop asking why until you get the answer you're looking for. Or until you're escorted away by security, whichever comes first.

I went to the doctor to get a sonogram. I'm not pregnant, I just like to take a look once in a while; see what's going on in there.

There's a basic mechanism for learning: [when] we find something interesting to us, we try to control it, we try to make it happen again, we try to change it, or we try to manipulate it. You see very early in babies—that they're trying to reproduce interesting things; take control of interesting things. In a lot of our schools, the teacher tells us what we have to know, and then we repeat it. That's not very interesting.

To promote children's curiosity, be careful not to jump in too quickly to fix things they're struggling with, since working with the "confounding" situation is where critical thinking is promoted. Instead, where possible, help them figure out how they can resolve it for themselves.

A strange marriage that had been, though most marriages appear strange to spectators.

The hefty price for accepting information uncritically is that we go through life unaware that what we've accepted as impossible may in fact be quite possible.

Regardless of how we get there, either through meditation or more directly by paying attention to novelty and questioning assumptions, to be mindful is to be in the present, noticing all the wonders that we didn't realize were right in front of us.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. JAMES JOYCE

The Medusa and the Snail,

We told them I was home-schooled, raised by feral librarians.

Boredom can be just another construct of the mind....There is always something new to notice.