Quotes About Curiosity

Any kid that never fantasized about blowing up his school never really went there.

No wonder you rise in the middle of the night to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war. No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.

You are turning me like someone turning a globe in her hand, and yes, I have another side like a China no one, not even me, has ever seen. So describe to me what's there, say what you are looking at and I will close my eyes so I can see it too, the oxcarts and all the lively flags. I love the sound of your voice like a little saxophone telling me what I could never know unless I dug a hole all the way down through the core of myself.

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

The boy at the far end of the train car kept looking behind him as if he were afraid or expecting someone

As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Wisdom is a return to childhood.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children.

For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.

77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other words, we would never travel by sea if it meant never talking about it, and for the sheer pleasure of seeing things we could never hope to describe to others.

The more you search the more you find.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.

maybe some of us need to write what we are afraid to know or face. I see many writers who avoid writing what they should be writing because it would mean confronting their fears. Be curious about your fear—it's a cave, but instead of a monster lurking inside there is treasure instead.

what-iffing.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

My grandfather taught me how important it is to have your eyes open,because you never know what's going to come your way.

Qu'est-ce que vous faites dans la vie, vous? demanda le professeur. - J'apprends des choses (...)

Ici on croit en Dieu. Et c'est pas le curé qui nous en empêchera. Il sait seulement pas à quoi ça sert, Dieu.

Tout ce qui n'est ni une couleur, ni un parfum, ni une musique, c'est de l'enfantillage

Une chèvre, sur le bord de la route, fit un signe avec ses cornes et Angel s'arrêta. Monte, dit-il à l'animal. La chèvre sauta dans la voiture et s'assit sur le plateau, derrière eux. Elles font toutes de l'auto-stop, expliqua Angel. [...]