Quotes About Curiosity

The boy was twelve, reveling in the strange dust-smelling murk of a New Orleans library, watching motes flash gold in a beam of sun. He loved the ceiling lights on chains and the table lamps with their green glass shades. The room was as beautiful as another world.

Education must shift from instruction, from imposing of stencils, to discovery—to probing and exploration and to the recognition of the language of forms.

So what's interesting? It ain't like he

Who let the dogs in? ...This, we fear, is going to be the question. Who let the dogs in? Who let the dogs in? Who? Who?

Are snoopers snooping on their own pain? Probably.

What would you rather? yelled Sybil from the distant sandpit. Know everything or know nothing? Know nothing, I yelled back. Then you have the fun of finding everything out.

I long to burst out of the world of money and into - into what? Into the world of thought and fascination.

Al igual que la escritura, la pintura parece reflejar un mundo patas arriba en el que, por así decirlo, la flecha del tiempo discurre en sentido contrario. Las invisibles líneas de la velocidad hacen pensar en un nexo de secuencia y proceso muy diferente. De nuevo ese razonamiento. Siempre me intriga y me desazona, es curioso. Me pregunto si todas las artes son así.

Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today. But—is there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands interest?

To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.

Initially we understand nothing at all, and for this reason we ask.

Follow an exercise routine in which there is no routine. Whenever something becomes routine, you don't pay attention to it anymore. I rarely do the same routine twice which keeps me interested and focused.

No knowledge is wasted

To feel nature as a child is much more important than just being able to list names of birds, or plants or animals. That kind of heart isn't something you can teach a child in books.

That is the excitement of life, he said when he was finished. The not knowing. It is often best not to know.

My mind cannot grasp forever, she told him. There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?

I do not understand dalliance, Lord Ponsonby." "But you are d-drawn to it, Mrs. Keeping.

Some things, she said, are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham.

when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life

You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull." Sherlock

den, and I was walking down the street with

sententiously. "Well, I went to Underwood

Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it

my thoughts were far from the daring speculations of the writer.