Quotes About Curiosity

then again, they might not! Here's something funny. A strange man came here last summer and he gave Mr. Moss ten dollars for an old quarter.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Wake a question. Eat an instant, answer

She says it is a good thing to have no sense of how it is done in the things that amuse you. You should have one absorbing occupation and as for the other things in life for full enjoyment you should only contemplate results. In this way you are bound to feel more about it than those who know a little of how it is done.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Cloudiness what is cloudiness, is it a lining, is it a roll, is it melting.

Just before she Gertrude Stein died she asked, `What is the answer?' No answer came. She laughed and said, `In that case, what is the question?

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer

Yes, indeed, I'm so much looking

Tha know where thy are we' ferrets. Ya never know where ya are we' lasses

In her childhood, the grass was green. There were cleats and freshly laundered jerseys with silly team names and sliced oranges on the sideline. And to see the differences, to find these beautiful boys worthy of curiosity, of examination—it's the core of her chosen profession but it feels like human sightseeing. A tour of others. Look at these poor boys, happy despite everything.

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge. - V6-P427

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

I have to shoot and work out and play and discover all the time.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.

There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they have worked it out for themselves.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

In Silicon Valley, where I worked at companies like Facebook and Twitter for the earlier part of this decade, Cuba was generally regarded, when it was regarded at all, as a technological curiosity.

When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.