Quotes About Curiosity

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Isn't it curious that ever since man has walked, no one has asked why he walks, or how, or if he could improve his walking, or what he does when he walks, whether one could not impose his walking, change or scrutinize it—issues that are integral to all the philosophical, psychological or political systems that have occupied the world?

Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity.

It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity.

My way of looking at the world is so nearsighted. If no one said anything, I'd probably just live like I do now year in and year out, and feel complacent about everything around me. Plus, I don't see that many people. Something is definitely missing -- I don't know what, maybe compassion for people who are suffering, a sense of adventure, interest in other people...

I couldn't take my eyes off him. I think I heard a spirit call my name.

I like people who are always doing things that would never have occurred to me at that moment.

Potevo andare in qualunque posto, fare qualunque cosa. Stavo toccando con mano e vedendo con i miei occhi quanto fosse immenso il mondo e profonda l'oscurità e l'infinito fascino e solitudine di tutto ciò.

My mother was afraid of the books I wrote, afraid of what she would discover if she read them.

When little girls ask too many questions their tongues drop off!

When you consider something like death, after which. . . we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. — DIANE ACKERMAN

I read science for the same reason I read theology: because I am a seeker after truth.

I have found things while I was lost that I might never have discovered if I had stayed on the path. I have decided to stop fighting the prospect of getting lost and engage it as a spiritual practice instead.

reverence was the proper attitude of a small and curious human being in a vast and fascinating world of experience. This world included people and places as well as things.

Most of us prefer to remain on our cow paths, where we know the language and we do not need maps because we know the way by heart. Some of us even stay behind our own fences because we do not want to be mistaken for interlopers in other people's pastures

Why, Sandilands? Why?

When I left the kitchen the whole family were all gazing upwards at the dancing flies.

I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor do I think they should read only about things that they understand. '…a man's reach should exceed his grasp.' So should a child's. For myself, I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children. (from the author's acceptance speech for the Caldecott award)

My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

strangely, he wasn't in the mood to look at files and papers. Not with Heather Cole to look at. For that matter, even the journals might have fallen short—a shocking thought, but one he wasn't about to analyze at the moment. "I wasn't sure you'd be here, and

Life through a child's eye has to be supersized to hold the huge wealth of possibility she sees.

Tonight?" Hope asked.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

when something new sparks our interest an aperture forms in some outpost of the brain, gulps down an enzyme and sprouts a branch that can actually be measured. Imagine the orchards that are cultivated in our brains as we embrace new experiences and pursue with passion those interests that once attracted us but have been sadly mislaid along the way.