Quotes About Curiosity

the idea is to see how far one can go without supposing supernatural intervention.

As is natural for an academic, when I want to learn about something, I volunteer to teach a course on the subject.

The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Lately it seems there are mysteries everywhere, as if you've only just opened your eyes.

In high school the priests had cautioned us against the danger of books. "The wrong ones will warp your mind more than it already is, Marzek". I tried to find out what the wrong ones were so that I could read them. I had already developed my basic principle of Catholic education-The Double Reverse: (1) suspect what they teach you, (2) study what they condemn

There's always something else. That's what makes life so much fun.

I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.

While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.

At heart, I've always been a pretty little moralist. Private investigation is just my way of acting out.

don't mind my asking?

This was because his badge was attached to his belt in close proximity to his fly, and I didn't want to seem too interested. "Sorry to barge in unannounced," he went on.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery—always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? —Virginia Woolf

As the poet E. E. Cummings observed, "Always a more beautiful answer that asks a more beautiful question.

Openness to new experience and flexibility of belief seems to be easier when we feel safe and connected to others. Curiosity comes out of a sense of safety; rigidity out of being vigilant to threats.

Positive emotions remind us at such times that suffering and uncertainty are not the whole story in any human life. Positive emotions and beliefs fuel resilience and help us bounce back from adversity. They generate even more positive emotions in an upward spiral. This is surely part of the power of love. Love, at its best, brings a cornucopia of good things: joy and contentment, safety and trust, intense interest and involvement, curiosity and openness.

her. "How do you always know that stuff?" she asked. "Are you kidding? Everyone knows that stuff." He went back to the kitchen to start cleaning up. Meri crossed to the lilies. Bending over them

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

To know exactly where you're headed may be the best way to go astray. Not all who loiter are lost.

I wanted to know, and I didn't want to know. I was all hung up in limbo.

As I walked, I began to hear the sound of running water. It's impossible to hear that sound and not go searching for the source.

Increasingly, during those classes, longings had seized me, foreign, torrential aches that overran my heart. I wanted to know things, to become someone.