Quotes About Curiosity

downstairs, she heard

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them, either. So when they'd ask if I'd read all those books, I'd say, 'Hell, no. Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

Sometimes being able to read makes more questions than if you were stupid.

When I leave here, will this shop vanish the way they do in the stories?" "I'm afraid so, yes." "Why do they always do that?" The old man sighed. "You know, you're the first one who ever asked me that." But

Who wants a Library full of books they've already read?

Infinite knowledge can never wonder. All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, Have you any news?

Fish are an endless source of meditation and astonishment. The varied forms of these strange creatures, their diverse means of existence, the influence upon this of the places in which they must live and breathe and move about….

Philosophy is a process of inquiry only. It doesn't attempt to find specific answers to specific questions.

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in the fire, Jem growled. How do you know a match don't hurt him? Turtles can't feel , stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.

When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time. Atticus said no, it wasn't that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.

Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies - Scout

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions.

I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts. Wondering what bargain we had made, I turned to the class for an answer, but the class looked back at me in puzzlement.

Atticus killed several birds with one stone when he read to his children, and would probably have caused a child psychologist considerable dismay: he read to Jem and Jean Louise whatever he happened to be reading, and the children grew up possessed of an obscure erudition. They cut their back teeth on military history, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, True Detective Mysteries, The Code of Alabama, the Bible, and Palgrave's Golden Treasury.

When it was time to play Boo's big scene, Jem would sneak into the house, steal the scissors from the sewingmachine drawer when Calpurnia's back was turned, then sit in the swing and cut up newspapers. Dill would walk by, cough at Jem, and Jem would fake a plunge into Dill's thigh. From where I stood it looked real.

there are ways of doing things you dont't know about

Scout- .. Uncle Jack? Uncle Jack- Ma'am? Scout- What's a whore-lady?

Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time.

Bir kibrit çak?p kaplumbaÄŸan?n alt?na tutman?n iÄŸrenç bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunu söyledi Dill. Ä°ÄŸren. falan deÄŸil, s?rf d??ar? ç?karmak için, ateÅŸin içine atmak gibi bir ÅŸey deÄŸil, diye gürledi Jem. Kibritin ona zarar vermeyeceÄŸini nereden biliyorsun? KaplumbaÄŸalar hissetmez, aptal, dedi Jem. Hiç kaplumbaÄŸa oldun mu?