Quotes About Curiosity

Ä°nsan zekas?n? hiçbir ÅŸey tutkulu bir ÅŸüpheden fazla keskinleÅŸtirmez, karanl?klara uzanan bir izin peÅŸinden ?srarla gitmek kadar baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey o güne kadar olgunlaÅŸmam?? zekay? geliÅŸtirmez.

Çok soran insan çok ÅŸeyi anlayabilir ancak. Yaln?zca çok ÅŸeyi anlayan biri adil bir insan olabilir.

Montaigne's greatest pleasure is in the search, not the discovery.

Jusqu'au dernier moment l'homme qui, doué d'une volonté prométhéenne, veut arracher à la terre son secret sentira la griffe du doute lui déchirer le cÅ"ur.

Cómo soporta uno que lo único que puede llegar a conocer sea lo que llega por casualidad a sus ojos, a sus oídos? ¿Cómo se puede respirar sin el aire universal que brota de los libros?

Montaignes ware plezier is het zoeken, niet het vinden. Hij is niet een van die filosofen die op zoek zijn naar de steen der wijzen, naar een nuttige formule. Hij wil dogma noch leer en is permanent op zijn hoede voor starre beweringen: 'Niets boud beweren, niets lichtvaardig ontkennen.

Nel suo superno mondo dei libri, non c'era guerra, non c'erano malintesi: c'era solo l'eterno sapere e voler sempre più sapere in fatto di numeri e parole, di titoli e nomi.

Sólo porque creía conocer un secreto le fue posible a Magallanes descifrar el secreto geográfico más grande de su época. Sólo

En toda la noche no pude pensar sino en ti, aun antes de conocerte. Yo sólo tenía una docena de libros baratos, encuadernados con cartones rotos, y los quería más que a nada en el mundo, los leía una y otra vez. Y ahora me asediaba la pregunta de cómo sería el hombre que poseía y había leído tantos y tan maravillosos libros.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

To-day she had watched magic dancing in a mackintosh, and she was at a loss.

Where are you flying off to?' inquired Viola, rather sulkily; few sights are more annoying when we feel lazy than that of somebody bounding upstairs.

I am quite sure I shall find it very amusing and not at all too much for me.

She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no curiosity about what the words meant. It was only Shakespeare and she was used to him.

carefully pulled himself up to look into the horizontal ventilation

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing I can remember learning is that a parallel universe can theoretically be contained on the head of a needle. I don't really know what that means, but I am now more careful handling needles.

There are three kinds of people," he wrote later, "those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I doubt your ex's murder is one of them.

I know I asked, but I don't want to know. I do want to know, but I don't want to know. It doesn't matter. If it's not Tayeb whoever, it'll be something else, and I'd always be playing catch-up. I was always playing catch-up.

Art is childhood, after all," wrote Rilke

Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist.