Quotes About Curiosity

A little boy gets up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. As he passes his parents' bedroom he peeks in through the keyhole. He watches for a moment, then continues on down the hallway, muttering to himself, "Boy, and she gets mad at me for sucking my thumb!

What do you call kids born in whorehouses? Brothel sprouts.

Immortality is only for the gods," he whispered. "I wonder how they can stand it.

People can wonder and ponder and imagine all they want. But their curiosity does not entitle them to enter my world.

Howie: "What if the whole thing was just an accident?" Jazz: "And what? Accidentally cut off three fingers postmortem? 'Oops, oh no, my girlfriend just died! Clumsy me, in trying to perform CPR, I chopped off some fingers! Guess I'll take them with me…Oh, darn, where did that middle finger go?

that night, I don't bother asking the voice if it's time yet. Because for the first time that I can remember, I don't want to know.

Dismissing without further investigation something that conflicts with what is already known is the very heart of rationality.

I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that.

Where does a child of mine get all that hair, I wonder? Arthur's not exceptionally hirsute, and the men on my side of the family are as bald as potatoes. I must have had an affair with a gorilla before he was born, but you'd think I'd remember something like that, wouldn't you? ... Be a dear and remind me to leave my brandy flask at home the next time I visit the zoo.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Seeing the world is the greatest thing a man can do.

Chissà se il gigante legge, e che cosa legge, e che cosa prova. Chissà se i libri gli cambiano la vita. O se legge solo l'universo, e non ci capisce niente.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

I can't be bothered with reality shows; I'd rather go and look through someone's letter box.

My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

I went and hung out at a foot fetish party, and I knew that was a very popular fetish to have, but I didn't realize how amazing it would be to have it.

If you're not making use of even the most routine assignment to learn something, realize that many of your colleagues and coworkers are.

I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.

I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.