Quotes About Curiosity

To try something new, we have to be willing to check our egos at the door. We have to move out from under what is comfortable and be willing to take the risk of being bad at something, or making fools of ourselves, or letting people ask those questions like, "Barbecue? Why barbecue?" When they ask that, we can say, "Because it's fun!

So wait a minute. I go looking for the story of the guy who wrote this awesome wind scale tha tblew my mind. I start reading about his life, and before he's sixteen years old I've already run across a family's flight from the poorhouse, an early balloon flight, an eccentric father, a young man at sea, Malay pirates, shipwreck, castaways, buried treasure, and Captain Bligh, fresh off the mutiny on the Bounty . Not a single word about the wind, but honestly, at this point, who cares?

Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.

I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?" "At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke.

I'm very pleased. Very, very pleased. But I really must ask—why the hell have men and women been throwing money in my kettle for the past half hour, telling me they're sorry for what happened in the Videnza?" "It's because they're sorry for what happened in the Videnza," said Galdo.

His view of the sky spun first left then right, as though the world were trying on strange new angles for his approval.

deny something to enough people and sooner or later it will grow a mystique as thick as fog.

A child walks in to the living room and asks, "Dad, where does poo come from?" Without wanting to be too explicit the father replies, "Well, first Mommy makes us dinner. Then we eat it. Then the body takes away all the goodness from the food to make us strong. Then we sit on the toilet. What's left comes out as poo." Looking horrified the child asks, "But Dad, what about Tigger and Eeyore??

Q: Why did the little boy put lipstick on his head? A: He wanted to make up his mind.

Q: Why did the teacher jump into the lake? A: She wanted to test the waters.

Q: Why did the blonde climb over the glass wall? A: To see what was on the other side.

Chien was careful to avoid debates over science and faith. To him, wonder was wonder and did not require further complications.

Beats thinking about whatever's waiting in Stonewall.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Why, my client wondered, would a guy like me make his living like this? Well, you'd think the three hundred dollars he paid just to watch me take a shower would have given him a clue.

Those that don't know history aren't poisoned by it.

My name is Carter Hall and I am a detective of history. But you are a detective, too. For to be human, at its core, is to question and quest. To seek answers about who we are. Even when--or especially when--those answers are beyond our grasp.

Always there is something of interest to be seen if one but knows where to look for it.

My business is to know things, especially things which I am not supposed to know.

The world is not magic — and that's the most magical thing about it.

When we want something to be true, when a belief makes us happy—that's precisely when we should be questioning. Illusions can be pleasant, but the rewards of truth are enormously greater.

When society puts some small fraction of its wealth into asking and answering big questions, it reminds us all of the curiosity we have about our universe. And that leads to all sorts of good places.

We talk about "awe and wonder," but those are two different words. I am in awe of the universe: its scope, its complexity, its depth, its meticulous precision. But my primary feeling is wonder. Awe has connotations of reverence: "this fills me with awe and I am not worthy." Wonder has connotations of curiosity: "this fills me with wonder and I am going to figure it out." I will take wonder over awe every day.

Historically, nature has been very good at surprising us.