Quotes About Curiosity

Every time I see a happy couple I want to give them a polygraph.

Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Be alive! See what you want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What you're fascinated with becomes fastened to you!

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

People attracted to others' trouble or drama like vultures are drawn to roadkill. People who seem to get up when you're down, always just a little too interested in your latest conflict, slight, or failure.

Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.

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Wonder is humankind's primal emotion

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

Twenty-two astronauts were born in Ohio. What is it about your state that makes people want to flee the Earth?" - Stephen Colbert to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, "The Colbert Report," November 3, 2005

T. S. Eliot said it: "Old men ought to be explorers.")

As you lay on a summer's day In a cool and shady place, Don't look up into the skies; Instead look down and squint your eyes. Squint your eyes so very tight, And if you wish with all your might, You'll find the land of More-Than-Small. In this land live buggs -- that's all!

He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.

But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and moon were about to clash, many persons would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.

You should welcome your ignorance because it enables you to learn. (31)

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

I was never able to find it in the analysis of chemicals or in degree programs or in any of my schools. But sometimes I find it in the soft flutter of butterflies, in the wildness of plants growing undomesticated in a forest clearing, in the laughter and running of young children, their hair flowing in the wind, and sometimes, sometimes I find it in the words of teachers who come among us from time to time—out there, far outside these walls, in the wildness of the world.

Very young children don't have the intermediary of language—they don't have a sign in place of the thing. They "see and hear in the old way.