Quotes About Curiosity

I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that - it won't be too late. Probably.

Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't explain and I didn't ask. Married life is weird, I felt.

When you sneak into somebody's backyard, it does seem that guts and curiosity are working together. Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Guts 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.

One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

The world was big and full of weird things and strange people.

Are there any capitalist cats? Nakata asked

Some people get a kick out of reading railway timetables and that's all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you? Kind of like a hobby? she said, amused. Yeah I guess you could call it a hobby. Most normal people would call it friendship or love or something, but if you want to call it a hobby, that's OK too.

Your life's just begun and there's a ton of things out in the world you've never laid eyes on. Things you never could imagine.

From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was something that had to be done, I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me, and I could study it at my own pace and approach it the way I liked, I was pretty efficient at acquiring knowledge and skills.

I think it's an amazing achievement to find even one specific thing that you're interested in.

In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know.

things never work out like you think they will, but that's what makes life interesting

Devouring books came as naturally to us as breathing.

It made me wonder how other people saw me. Not that I had any way of knowing, of course.

the world's filled with things I don't know about.

There are things in his world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about.

I don't know, but does it matter?

If a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn.

All I wanted was to put myself to sleep in towns I didn't know.

We don't find out what's waiting for us around the next corner until we turn it.

It felt like he'd opened the lid to invite me, personally, to the world underground. No one else, just me.

He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of its contents but sensing the new knowledge to come.

All I wanted was to put myself to sleep in towns I didn't know.

In the same way that people stare up at the sky to see the moon every night, yet understand next to nothing about it.