Quotes About Curiosity

Hay dos clases de literatura, la que propone una vuelta por fuera (crímenes en Norlandia, pasiones en la corte china del siglo XII, traiciones letales en un campus norteamericano…) y la que en su propuesta incluye una vuelta más, la que el lector debería dar por dentro de sí mismo».

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

Over the past week Pearl had taught Sugar how to bake, and Sugar showed Pearl, with the help of a large ripe cucumber, the technique of giving hand and giving head. Pearl wriggled her nose in disgust and shook her finger at her in reproach, but her eyes never left the cucumber. Sugar saw that Pearl had finally allowed curiosity and possibility to couple.

asking the right questions.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

I don't think we can ever say who we are in any fixed sense. Our own curiosity and sense of identification with others drive us constantly toward creative change.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Scopo della scienza non è tanto quello di aprire una porta all'infinito sapere, quanto quello di porre una barriera all'infinita ignoranza.

No temas preguntar, compañero! No te dejes convencer! ¡Compruébalo tu mismo! Lo que no sabes por ti, no lo sabes

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

The High School of our species, curiosity, requires the unusual for its awakening. Just as it took prodigies, eclipses, or comets, to start our distant ancestors inquiring into the structure of the universe, so in our time crises have been needed for the birth of an economic science, and thirty millions of unemployed for it to become widespread.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

A catechism is a sort of strait-waistcoat put upon children, preventing all liberty of action; and while the child's brain ought to be cultured and developed, it ought never to be trained to run in one special groove of thought.

Education should teach children how to think, but should never tell them what to think. It should sharpen and polish the instruments of thought, but should not fix them into a machine made to cut out one special shape.

But remember that reading provides nourishment for hungers we might not even be aware of. How often have I chosen a book at random and found in it an answer I didn't realize I was seeking.

You've just read of a woman remembering an orange thrown through a window, without knowing why she remembers this. You will either remember reading this and know why you remember reading this, or you will remember reading this and not know why you remember reading this, or you will not remember reading this, possibly forever.

With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

One day you'll do something, see something or get an idea that seems to pop up from nowhere. And you'll feel a kind of stirring- like a warm flicker inside your chest. When that happens, whatever you do, don't ignore it. Open your mind and explore the idea. Fan your flame.

Meander within the space of insufficient evidence.

Pete opened the cellar doors.

mother to the stairs. "Can I ask you something?

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?