Quotes About Curiosity

And what was he like? Did he have three heads?" "If he did, two must have been successfully removed in infancy.

He was lying on his back, eating peanuts, and gazing straight up with binoculars at the troop of spider monkeys. They in turn were lined up on a limb fifty feet above, staring down at him and eating leaves. It was a funny sight, two curious primate species observing each other with fascination.

We live in a nation of ignoramuses. The average American knows nothing about science. A man asked me once if the stars went away when the sun rose, or if they were still there but you just couldn't see them. He was a stockbroker I had the misfortune of employing, a man who made over one hundred thousand dollars a year! Well, I took my investments away from him, damn quick! And then the market climbed five hundred points.

I would prefer to work with somebody comfortable with cutting-edge tools and theories—and unlikely to discard possible results simply because they don't follow received wisdom.

Old men are always young enough to learn.

A huge gap appeared in the side of the mountain. At last a tiny mouse came forth.

The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers

Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.

That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.

the truth is never horrible, only interesting.

It is completely unimportant," said Poirot. "That is why it is so interesting," he added softly.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

Why didn't they ask the Evans?

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out. Miss Marple