Quotes About Curiosity

Townsfolk can get downright touchy over the occasional earth-elemental in the scullery. Can't imagine why....

his nose in the door and

Yet here apparently on this stifling summer afternoon was the eye of Mr. Flay at the outer keyhole of the Hall of the Bright Carvings, and presumably the rest of Mr Flay was joined on behind it.

In great thick dusty books he read And hardly ever went to bed Before it was eleven. - One Day When They Had Settled Down

Imagination runs most surely over land that it knows.

beat upon the door.

Say why not? rather than why?

Three words that are the beating heart behind why many explorers or adventurers do what they do. 'Because it's there.

We opened the door and looked at each other. Surprised. It was literally like stepping into a deep freeze. Old iron boats are like that in winter. The cold water around them means that, without heating, they are Baltically cold. We fumbled our way, still all wrapped up, into the bowels of the boat and the boiler room. Shara looked at me, then at the silent, cold boiler. No doubt she questioned how smart both choices had really been.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.

WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!

that the doll's house belonged to said: I will get a doll dressed like a policeman! BUT the nurse said: I will set a mouse-trap! SO that is the story of the two Bad Mice. But they were not so very, very naughty

The collie-dog Kep met her coming out, What are you doing with those onions? Where do you go every afternoon by yourself, Jemima Puddle-duck? Jemima

He was sitting on a log; he sniffed the air and

dressed like a policeman! BUT the nurse said: I will set a mouse-trap! SO that is the story of the two Bad Mice. But they were not so very, very naughty after all, because Tom Thumb paid for everything he broke. He found a crooked sixpence

Beatrix Potter

a time there were four little Rabbits

Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.

I would like heterosexual women to be as actively curious about how and why and when they became heterosexual as I have been about how and why and when I became a Lesbian.

if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read. And

if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read.

if you can read, you can learn just about anything.

no society based on nothing more constructive than fear and brutish ignorance culd survive for ever. No people who raised up the least inventive, the least challenging, the least interesting of their number while crushing individual curiousity and endevour could prosper for long.

Why?' He kept asking in his sweetly belling voice, its tone as pure as marbles swirled around a crystal pail. Why him wun up the tree? Why him nest up theah? Why him gadder nuts? Why? Why? Why? And Billy answering every question to the best of his ability, as if anything less would disrespect the deep and maybe even divine force that drove his little nephew toward universal knowledge.