Quotes About Curiosity

lot. She saw a guy carrying a small suitcase out

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and doesn't know quite what to do with it. I dig in.

He was so curious about the boys' Thanksgiving that he couldn't put into practice a skill Griffin-Hall had been trying to teach him: to stop and take a few deep breaths and reconsider what he was about to say.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. —ANAÏS NIN

amateur gynecology.

the land of ideas, you are always renting.

She imagined what it was like to be a big, hairy animal, cock flopping as you walked, like a careless, unruly advertisement

Gregory Benford

Karl wondered how many scientists read this science fiction stuff. Maybe they couldn't get good books out in New Mexico?

What interests me," she took up finally, and there was now no touch of her characteristic satire, "is a life in which I am engaged in discovering what interests me. Not just now, as a young woman, but when I am a wife, and when I have children, and beyond. A life of imagination, and experience, and engagement, and commitment to something beyond myself.

She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.

I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.

It's funny, everyone seems to ask me that in the last few days.

There was too much that I didn't understand. There was too much that I wouldn't allow myself to ask. And I was excited, in that web of connections and concealments. The scent of danger, the smell of fear, filled my senses.

I asked, pushing a canoe of thought out into the uncharted water of his ideas.

Yes, Lin, you want me? Prabaker said, popping through the doorway from his eavesdropping post outside.

We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.

realized that he would one day need to answer his child's questions about faith.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Or is it just that the world upwraps itself to you, again and again, as soon as you're ready to see it anew?

She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.