Quotes About Curiosity

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

You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. We were both born here, we went to the same schools, we were taught the same things. I wonder what you saw and heard.

From the day Mr Radley took Arthur home, people said the house died.

Dr. Finch had drunk so long and so deep of his heady brew that his being was shot through with curious mannerisms and odd exclamations.

We came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.

wondered where Dill was. Jean Louise would know, she kept in touch. "Honey, where's Dill?" Jean Louise opened her eyes. "Italy, last time I heard.

Jack! When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

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

Peki, niçin bize en gizli s?rr?n? açm??t?? Nedenini sordum. -Çünkü siz çocuksunuz. Anlars?n?z.

Two other slave women peer around a sheet, apparently hung for modesty's sake, in a childlike display of curiosity. This innocuous tableau could hardly differ more from the gruesome reality in which each surgical scene was a violent struggle between the slaves and physicians and each woman's body was a bloodied battleground.

Like all of the other sciences, we have found out that the more we know, the more there is to know.

Why? Jason asked himself. Why this intense and planetary hatred?

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster

If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out of the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could Laika possibly be looking at?

Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up.

I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives – they're the ones you have to watch out for.

I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don't trust it, I have to investigate the source.

Good question, but no answer. Good questions never have answers.

Not being bored means not having to think about a lot of stupid stuff.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Are you asking because you really want an answer?