Quotes About Curiosity

Every time I'm in a foreign place and a different city, I'm always asking around to say, OK, well, what's special here in this particular place? What makes these people move here and why?

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

It's high time you were shown That you really don't know all there is to be known.

I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great... Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that.

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?

...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.

I'm still a big kid - I make mistakes all time.

If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.

It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food.

It's cool to challenge myself to learn new things as opposed to going to play basketball in the park for millionth time.