Quotes About Curiosity

How is a boy's mind to expand if he does not ask questions, and who should be so well able to answer his questions as his father?

No one should ever be bored. One can be horrified, or disgusted, but one can't be bored.

Most of the contemporary beings acquire in their presence a very strange need to evoke the expression in others of the being-impulse 'astonishment' regarding themselves, or even simply to notice it on the faces of those around.

And who are the true philosophers? Those who love the sight of truth.

Mais la Terre serait plate si personne ne se posait de questions dessus.

?övalyelerin ve ?sa'n?n güzel ülkelerini tan?mak nasip olmay?nca, böyle lügat y???nlar? aras?nda yürümek ?u ana kadar bu gezegende tan?d???m en sarho? edici ?ey.

Pentru mine, ca b?rbat, femeia e stranie ?i str?in? (atât de stranie încât sfâr?e?te prin a deveni "mister")

I don't want to know, but I would like to know it all from your own mouth, how she fell, what she said when she screamed and whether she cursed or blessed you.

C'è chi cammina in mezzo a un popolo come in mezzo a una foresta d'alberi tutti eguali, indifferente; ma c'è qualcuno, continuamente ansioso, che cerca in ogni volto la muta risposta a una muta domanda. Per costui non ci sono su la terra stranieri.

Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

There's something kind of heroic about being a bookseller.

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

In Amelia's experience, most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

What makes a person want to shiver in a train station for nothing more than the promise of a secret image? But then, what makes a person drive down an unmarked road in the middle of the night? Maybe it was the willingness to play that hinted at a tender, eternally newborn part in all humans. Maybe it was the willingness to play that kept one from despair.

I'm always seeing the world with magic eyes," he said. "I'm exploding with childish wonder.

If Marx at twenty-two had a problem, it was that he was attracted to too many things and people.

She dates some - women and men. She has slipped into bisexuality without needing to make a big thing about it. She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

One of the reasons they had become such good friends originally was because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity.

Maybe she hadn't asked the right or enough questions because she hadn't wanted to know the answers.

The child's body moves the way a body can move before it has felt or even encountered the idea of pain.

Did you have a good time with Win?" Natty asked. "I'll tell you about it tomorrow." I lowered my voice. "He's still here." "Annie!" Her eyes grew wide and delighted. 'It's a long story and probably a lot less exciting than the one I suspect you're concocting, Natty. He's only using our couch.

Ah, but Sadie Green was a gamer! In a game, if a sign warns you not to open a certain door, you will definitely open that door. If it doesn't work out, you can always go back to the save point and start again.

because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity.