Quotes About Curiosity

There is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, interwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men.

Imparate da me, se non dai miei precetti, almeno dal mio esempio, quanto sia pericolosa l'acquisizione della conoscenza, e quanto sia più felice quell'uomo che ha per mondo la sua città natale, di colui che aspira a una grandezza maggiore di quella che la sua natura gli concede.

She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar.

Quien no haya experimentado la seducción que la ciencia ejerce sobre una persona, jamás comprenderá su tiranía.

Cuántas cosas podríamos conocer si la cobardía y la pereza no entorpecieran nuestra curiosidad!

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics.

partly as an expedient for exercising any untried resources of mind.

These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation.

After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I

No leía, como hacen muchos, meramente para pasar el rato, sino que seguía interrogándose a sí misma y al autor, modelando cada idea de mil maneras, deseosa de descubrir una verdad en cada frase.

I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the aerial creations of the poets. The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

Sometimes I endeavoured to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature's formation; but on this point he was impenetrable.

my first impulses, which had suggested to me the duty of obeying the dying request of my friend, in destroying his enemy, were now suspended by a mixture of curiosity and compassion.

But power, in all its shapes, is venerable to man. Awe, curiosity, a clinging fascination, drew me towards him.

fortochka. It is a tiny window cut inside a larger pane. Even when windows have been sealed for the long winter, the fortochka can remain in use, being opened regularly to allow air to circulate. The Soviet university, as it turned out, had its fortochkas, and the way to learn was to hunt for them and then to stick your whole face in them and breathe the fresh air as though one's lungs could be filled up with reserve supplies.

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

so we disregard our curiosity and thoughts of "I wonder what that person is like, how her voice sounds, how soft her skin is, or if she is as

There is a certain sort of innocence that comes with curiosity. Who

you begin a statement by saying, "I'm curious, (fill in with your question)", then the person will be more likely to openly share.

I'm just curious, why did you choose to dye your hair blue?" as opposed to "Why is your hair blue?

I'm curious, what made you want to respond the way you did?" as opposed to "Why did you respond that way?