Quotes About Curiosity

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

and one of those neat spiral stairways in the far corner-I wonder where it leads. Spiral staircases always seem to me like they must lead somewhere special.

Trishiffany said. "And your child was the 129,285,656,702nd." "Do you know how many hours I spent sneaking around here in the middle

Soon she came to understand how essential it was to know these things. That was when she began to read.

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.

If we proceed like the child does with the puppy, if we examine what is hidden in things and persons, in everything that is stimulating in this colorful world, then we will uncover nothing more than that kind of atomized sawdust with which 'science' for a long time has been feeding those hungry for knowledge. Everything real looked at in the light disappoints. The forms lose their shine, color, and aroma, like a fruit that someone has grasped too strongly.

Every level of our being calls for play and danger.

I wanted to try this new drink. That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

The house wasn't locked. Wallander looked

other side of the fence? And who was that man? 5

He took a sheet of paper out of a desk drawer. But what would he write? The day's work had hardly involved more than collecting a large number of question marks.

El dodo no sabía lo que era un enemigo. Y por eso, lógicamente, lo consideraron tonto.

Lo repugnante puede resultar atractivo a veces. Aterrador, amenazante, pero también tentador. Como cuando nos acercamos a algo que huele mal, pero no podemos dejar de aspirar el hedor.

Qué poco sabemos de nuestros vecinos», pensó.

Indirect questions can produce direct answers. - Anne-Brit Höglund

Everyone must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

but he conceived that the perfection of human society required that a man should enter a drawing-room where he was a total stranger, and place himself on the hearth-rug, his back to the fire, with an air of expectant benevolence, without curiosity, much as though he had dropped in at a charity concert, kindly disposed to applaud the performers and to overlook mistakes

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.