Quotes About Curiosity

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?

You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us ... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of cheese. You don't do crosswords, do you, Mr. Wormold? I do, and they are like people: one reaches an end. I can finish any crossword within an hour, but I have a discovery concerning the blueness of cheese that will never come to a conclusion.

I am interested in the blueness of the cheese.

What will we care for the why and the wherefore?

I wanted her mind, now I wanted to read her thoughts, but they were hidden away in a language I couldn't speak.

Curious pedantries moved him.

He listened with the intense interest one feels in a stranger's life, the interest the young mistake for love.

Have they brought home the haunch?

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

Sometimes in this life you have to understand that we don't need to know everything.

Jake, we haven't tried for awhile. Tried what? Just to walk out. No. Why haven't we? Because we're in a place where a horse shits rainbows. Right.

There are those who fashion history and those who contemplate it; there are those who make things happen and those who ask why.

Asking questions gives you significant power.

I'll go see what's in the building," she said. "Maybe it's somebody like me, somebody smarter who knows about electricity. Tomorrow morning I'll go see.

What's a "god"?' Khren asked. Nico, Shewel, and Denbord walked on Tiadba's left, Khren and Macht on her right. Perf, as always, straggled behind with Frinna and Herza. Nobody answered. 'Just thought a Tall One might know,' Khren murmured. Tiadba

As the late John Keel said, "To hell with the answer. What is the question?"     Alien

From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury Today, noon, a young macho friendly waiter and three diners, business types—two males, one female— are in a quandary about the name of the duck paddling Otter Creek, the duck being brown, but too large to be a female mallard. They really want to know, and I'm the human-watcher behind the nook of my table, camouflaged by my stillness and nonchalant plumage. They really want to know. This sighting I record in the back of my Field Guide to People.

But as my mother always said: You never know what's cooking in someone else's pot.

elbowed Danny. "You think Shields is the father of that baby?

All human beings, Carl had learned, were fascinated with death. Only those who knew death intimately, as he did, understood its essential mystery.

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Is that a no? she asks . Once burned, twice shy, Sam chimes in. I like Wilde's quote better, Caitlin rejoins. What's that? I ask. The burnt child loves the fire. The Quiet Game. The Quiet Game (Kindle Locations 1477-1479). Kindle Edition.