Quotes About Curiosity

There is a phrase neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring. This thing was all of them, plus some other bits of beasts unknown to science or nightmare or even kebab. There was certainly some red, and a lot of flapping, and Nutt was sure he caught a glimpse of an enormous sandal...

I wonder what happened to 'em all? You, said the horse. Well, yes. But I always thought there'd be some more.

It doesn't take a lot to interest goats.

My Lord... what is Death like? called the old man tremulously. When I have investigated it fully, I will let you know, came the faintest of modulations on the breeze. Yes, murmured the Loremaster. A thought struck him. During daylight, please, he added.

To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. Words have a weight to them. How you choose to present them and to whom is a matter of style and choice.

I was not rebelling by smoking dope or drinking, I was testing ideas. I was experimenting with voice, what I could say and still be heard in an atmosphere of prescribed truths.

Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have a mind-altering experience, who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought--but refused to replace one dogma with another.

We could show them the most exquisite Ming vase, or a carved ivory screen from Persia, and they'd turn their backs and go straight for the human remains.

A related reason why people resist making the most important move is that they think an outward mindset will make them soft when hard behavior is required. But this is a misunderstanding. As we've said, an outward mindset doesn't make people soft; it just makes them open, curious, and aware. Similarly, an inward mindset doesn't make people hard. In fact, people whose mindsets are inward often engage in behaviors that are softer than would actually be helpful.

if I'm not interested in knowing a person's name, I'm probably not really interested in the person as a person.

In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's past, but as a rule something must be said. People have the habit of inquiring—if they are no more than butchers and bakers. By degrees one must account for this and that fact, and it was so here. .

She looked at him now and then on the sly, and felt, for the first time in her life, an interest in a man on his own account. He was so big, so handsome, so forceful.

Jennie looked at him curiously. She scarcely understood what she was thinking, but this man drew her. If she had realized in what way she would have fled his presence then and there.

She wondered curiously where she would be when she died.

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar health is invariably fascinating. Next to love, it is the one thing which solaces and delights.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

People should know more than what was or will be. People must know that which must never be." -- Theodore Sturgeon

Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created, and is the reason it has been created.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

When I'm between projects, I keep a journal I call a 'thought log,' and it's my practice to write down whatever interests me.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

I love journalism.

I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.