Quotes About Curiosity

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

I love spoilers, and I read spoilers all the time. I make people tell me the endings of movies before I go to see them, and yet I refuse to give spoilers. It's kind of unfair, but that's how I roll.

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

Make the time to be scared of more interesting things.

I guess, I ended up finding music to pour my curiosity into. It was my creative outlet and therapy at the same time.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the elect have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so slow, so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can show off and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Then the cow asked: What is a mirror? It is a hole in the wall, said the cat. You look in it, and there you see the picture, and it is so dainty and charming and ethereal and inspiring in its unimaginable beauty that your head turns round and round, and you almost swoon with ecstasy.