Quotes About Curiosity

Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel!

always curious why Rachel and I never ventured into a life like hers and her vivid example of independence as well as empathy for everything around her.

At one point he put his nose close to a volume called Raymond, or Life and Death by Sir Oliver Hodge.

Who lays the crumbs of food that tempt you? Towards a person you never considered. A dream. Then later another series of dreams.

A writer's mind must never be closed. It's his duty to be curious and my duty to feed the curiosity. Think of it as the start of a big adventure.

Know everything.  Pretend you know nothing, but know it all.

Memory is the enemy of wonder

I think of childhood as the R&D stage of the species, concerned exclusively with learning and exploring. We adults are production and marketing.

There is another word for this extremist noticing—this sense of first sight unencumbered by knowingness, by the already-been-theres and seen-thats of the adult mind—and that word, of course, is wonder.

The short summary is, babies and children are basically tripping all the time.

That is the problem with you whites. You always want to know everything. We just experience it.

Jesse's curiosity about psychedelics was first piqued during a drug education unit in his junior high school science class. This particular class of drugs was neither physically nor psychologically addictive, he was told (correctly);

negative capability," the ability to exist amid uncertainties, mysteries, and doubt without reaching for absolutes, whether those of science or spirituality.

It gave us permission to try weird shit in cahoots with other people.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

The very first time I buzzed my head, I was 21 - I'd had short hair since I was 14 - I just remember it was, like, 2 in the morning, and I just was like, 'I really want to do it. I want to see what I look like and what my head shape is.'

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young.

I've been collecting rocks since I was 8 and have over 200 different specimens.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

When material comes to me, I don't care where it's coming from. Japan, Singapore, China, Africa... it could be from everywhere. The material should excite me. It's not important where it's coming from.

I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing lessons... I was a pretty normal kid, for the most part.