Quotes About Curiosity

I have eaten brains, my tongue loves to probe the delicate folds

How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?" "You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth

And might I live long enough to see the world yet again as a place completely different, through eyes that see another truth not yet revealed?

Perhaps I will someday. When there is nothing left in my own world that pleases me.' 'Then you will never visit, for you are a girl who will always find pleasure in something.

If only we could know our parents when we are children.

Finally Pix-Kyle Weaver shrugged and said, "Pm kinda interested in Vietnam.

But there is very little emphasis within our educational systems on the education of the imagination, which requires sustained encounters with uncertainty.

So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing....

It's as if they take all our questions and offer them straight back: Who are you? Why are you here? What do you want?

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

those students who are exposed to many different experiences and beliefs learn far more than those who are not.

He's a sponge. His eyes are wide open. You can see him absorbing his surroundings, feeding off everything that's going on. No matter how good you get, you can never stop learning. He gets that. It's

We are curious creatures, we Taiwanese. Orphans. Eventually, orphans must choose their own names and write their own stories. The beauty of orphanhood is the blank slate.

Curiosity could be almost as powerful as desire.

Happily we run away from even the brightest and best things in our lives, because we are curious about what else is out there. And what else is out there? Just more of the same, whichever way you look. Whichever way you turn, it's the same life you're facing. It's the same life that's facing you.

And another dark shadow on a dark lawn: the fact that for a woman of curiosity, no decision will ever feel like the right one. In both, too much is missing.

The worse the mess, the more I get to wonder.

No one speaks the truth quite like a child" -H.W. Marsworth

Dreaming Of A Stranger Destinations

why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid. Why try to make me like you? Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle? Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle? Why do you scream when I do what I did? Im a kid.

I can't begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.

What was so odd was that quite a lot of people, not just sheep but highly intelligent people, did apparently believe it. T. S. Eliot, for instance. Or Eddington—in fact, quite a few physicists, the very last people one would expect to be taken in by it. Philosophers, too. Was it possible—was there any chance—that there was more to it than I had thought? No, certainly not. Of course not! Still, it was odd. Damned odd.

If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst.

Be very suspicious of anyone who does not have books at home or in the office, or who stammers when you ask them about the last thing they read.