Quotes About Curiosity

I want to know your ideas," Sam said. "I really want to know them. I love hearing your ideas. That's my favorite thing in the world.

What kind of pipe is that?" Maya asks. "I have never seen a pipe like that before." A.J.'s first impulse is to cover Maya's eyes, but then he laughs. Had Friedman actually traveled on the plane with drug paraphernalia? He turns to his daughter. "Maya, do you remember when we read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland last year?

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

They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

Well, what are you doing back there?" she asked. "Counting the rocks beneath your feet?" Turning away again to continue her climb, she lifted the hem of her skirts, unconsciously affording him a glimpse of her pretty calves. "Merely enjoying the view," he said, savoring the maidenly sway of her hips.

That sometimes the smartest person in the room is the one who says, "I have no idea.

the light through the windows is always more enchanting when viewed from the street outside.

Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.

Huh. Redheads. What is it about redheads?

He seemed to have a story no one had bothered to discover

Why do I go outside at one a.m. and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

My dear Kepler , what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

For you, only life is of value, you have a lingering attachment to it, it continues to be interesting because there are still things to discover and amaze you. It is only life that can excite you. That is just how it is with you, isn't it?

Aplica, pues, un rato los sentidos al bajo son de mi zampoña ruda, indigna de llegar a tus oídos, pues d'ornamento y gracia va desnuda; mas a las veces son mejor oídos el puro ingenio y lengua casi muda, testigos limpios d'ánimo inocente, que la curiosidad del elocuente.

Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more "useful" questions. Most adults aren't themselves interested in philosophical questions. They may be threatened by some of them. Moreover, it doesn't occur to most adults that there are questions that a child can ask that they can't provide a definitive answer to and that aren't answered in a standard dictionary or encyclopedia either.

This,' whispered the Doctor to Romana, 'is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

Geeky people often have. . . . a mind with its own heartbeat.

Girls who kiss boys, girls who date them, girls who call them on the phone... that's all they do. There are other things I want to do.

I am not all knowing. Therefore, I will not even attempt to be. I need to be loved. Therefore, I will be open to loving children. I want to be more accepting of the child in me. Therefore, I will with wonder and awe allow children to illuminate my world.

Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

people seem eager to believe that aliens exist, despite the lack of hard evidence and the huge number of proven frauds and hoaxes.