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Quotes About Curiosity

Gators are just something you have to accept where I come from. Most don't go anywhere near the houses, even though there are lots of delicious children and dogs there. Every once in a while, though, an alligator has a lightbulb moment and decides to take a stroll and see the world a bit.
~ Maureen Johnson
The bones were on the table, naked and chalky. The eye sockets hollow, the mouth in a loose grimace, as if to say. Yep, it's me. Bet you're wondering how I ended up here. It's a funny story actually....
~ Maureen Johnson
The property was crisscrossed with pathways that made no real sense. The rumor was that Ellingham followed one of his cats and had a stone path made along any route it preferred to take because he felt "cats know best." The rumor wasn't true, but Ellingham enjoyed it so much that there was another rumor that he started the first rumor himself.
~ Maureen Johnson
I found out so many things about so many people that I didn't want to know
~ Maureen Johnson
Stevie had absolutely no idea what he meant by "have a butcher's" and was not going to ask.
~ Maureen Johnson
Just a moment, she said, Murphy, yes? How did she know that? Keith asked as the woman walked to the phone. How do you have all of these strange connections inside Harrods? Who are you?
~ Maureen Johnson
There I was, creeping down the sweet garbage alley to break into the restaurant….
~ Maureen Johnson
I heard about her from one of the top librarians at the public library, this girl from Avenue A who read Greek and slipped into one of the rare books rooms three times. They said she was trouble, but good trouble. Good trouble.
~ Maureen Johnson
She could have sworn the little blue eye of Edward King's security camera in the cupola ceiling winked at her. It saw all.
~ Maureen Johnson
Falling down a hole is easy. Everyone should try it. You just let the ground go away and allow gravity to do its thing.
~ Maureen Johnson
Jesus Christ," Nate said, banging his head delicately against the mirror wall. "Is this even a school, or are we in some kind of experiment?
~ Maureen Johnson
but there was no curiosity in those faces, and no anger, and no mercy.
~ Ayn Rand
What Columbus felt when he landed in America, what the astronauts felt when they landed on the moon, is what a child feels when he discovers the earth, between the ages of two and seven.
~ Ayn Rand
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?
~ Ayn Rand
From the screen, a huge white face had looked at him, a face with a mouth one wished one could wish to kiss, and eyes that made one wonder—a wonder which was pain—just what it was they were seeing. He felt as if there was something—deep in his brain, behind everything he thought and everything he was—which he did not know, but she knew, and he wished he did, and wondered whether he could ever know it, and should he, if he could, and why he wished
~ Ayn Rand
He felt as if there was something—deep in his brain, behind everything he thought and everything he was—which he did not know, but she knew, and he wished he did, and wondered whether he could ever know it, and should he, if he could, and why he wished it.
~ Ayn Rand
The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist. But we think that the Council of Scholars is blind. The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. We know, for we have found a secret unknown to all our brothers.
~ Ayn Rand
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. We
~ Ayn Rand
Why should you care about the others?" "Because I like to understand things, and there's something about people that I can't understand.
~ Ayn Rand
IF YOU DON'T KNOW, THE THING TO DO IS NOT TO GET SCARED, BUT TO LEARN
~ Ayn Rand
Questions give us no rest.
~ Ayn Rand
Più sappiamo, più impariamo che non sappiamo niente.
~ Ayn Rand
Un inventor es un hombre que pregunta ¿por qué? al universo y no permite que nada se interponga entre la respuesta y su mente.
~ Ayn Rand
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
~ Ayn Rand