Quotes About Curiosity

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

There's a door. Where does it go? It stays where it is, I think.

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as Things just happen. What the hell.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well. When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,' he paused, then added, 'well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course.

What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?

He could think in italics . Such people need watching. Preferably from a safe distance.

It's quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things said Rob Anybody, that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?

Don't try the paranormal until you know what's normal.

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune? Can't girls seek their fortune? I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.

The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.

People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.

I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is until you've read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there'll be the making of a novel.