Quotes About Curiosity

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.

I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.

Dulcie said there were no cats in the Bible, but Kit wasn't sure she believed that. Why would there be horses and cows and dogs, wild pigs and weasels, but no cats? Why, when everyone knew that a little cat would have to be God's favorite?

The best teachers will not give you something to drink, they will make you thirsty. They will not give you answers but will put you on a path to seek answers.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.

Do not be too interested in Zen.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few

In the beginner's mind, there are unlimited possibilities. In the expert's mind, there are few.

To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I'm afraid that nothing surprises me any more.

An inquisitive mind is the only means of travelling from the world of expectations to Reality

All cities have a certain fascination that is lost with too intimate a knowledge.

No one knows all that there is to know. (This despite Mark Twain's observation that between him and Albert Einstein, they encompassed all human knowledge. As he put it, "Einstein knows all that there is to know, and I know the rest.") The task is to learn as much as you can about as much as you can; the great disease of mankind is ignorance. With

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

Teach the young people how to think, not what to think.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

All this, I suspect, has been little more than the operation known as the pilgrimage from the cradle to the grave, but I have had a comfortable feeling that, however ordinary my enterprises may have been, they had at any rate the advantage of containing, for me, an element of sustained unfamiliarity. I am one of those persons who begin life by exclaiming they've "never seen anything like this before" and die in the hope that they may say the same of heaven.

That, Echo, is a bird." "A bird?" he repeated in disbelief. "Yes," Taylor said, joining them. "Why don't you talk to it, and see if it answers." Echo, still unmoving, watched the bird, then called, "Hello!" When the bird didn't answer, he added, "We want to talk to you!

The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want

There's a certain type of person who, having read this far, is anxiously wondering: Does something bad happen to the dog?

It's not uncommon to wish to have known what a person you've come to love was like before you met them. It hurts, almost, not to have known what a beloved was like as a child. I have felt this way about every man I've ever been in love with, and about many close friends as well, and now it's how I feel about Apollo.

As a girl, I used to believe that I could see and taste the air. I was TOLD that was impossible and forgot how to do so.

Have you ever eaten flies?" Mendiondo asked. "Yes, when I was a kid, on a dare. Of course, I tore off the wings and tiny legs before I ate it.