Quotes About Curiosity

What appalled Schiller about these libraries was that they featured nothing off the beaten track: no tattered paperbacks; no evidence of distinctive personal interests; no tokens of long intellectual detours passionately explored.

I know it sounds strange but it's true. I mean that you're open to life. You're open to being surprised. You're open to being changed by life. Most of us lose that quality in our twenties. I don't know how you've managed to hang on to it, but you have.

When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.

Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.

What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go into your own cabinet?

Si alguna vez te has preguntado de dónde vienen los sueños que tienes por la noche, mira a tu alrededor y lo sabrás. Aquí es donde se hacen los sueños».

If you ever wonder where your dreams come from, look around: this is where they're made." -Georges Méliès

There would just be... answers. You don't feel wonder at things you know the answer to. Life without wonder seems sad.

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.

She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.

Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders.

Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.

How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.

We are all cabinets of wonders.

I've been thinking, Christopher Robin,' said Pooh, 'which do you like best: old friends or new?' Christopher Robin thought and, after a long time, said: 'Well, I like new friends because you never quite know what they'll do next. But I like old friends, too, because, however long you've known them, you are always discovering things you didn't know before.

Trying to suppress atheistic thought on the internet does nothing to address the causes of people's religious doubts and may actually increase their curiosity. People would not be seeking out this material unless they felt it had some relevance to their own situation and attempts at censorship imply a fear that religion cannot win the argument on evidence and reasoning alone.

I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

Elisabeth, unmoved, replied: "Oh, yes, they're curious - whenever there's something to see, they come running, for the monkey dancing at the hurdy-gurdy just as much as for me. That is their love!

Our job is to invent new things. It's not to know everything.

Science is based not on faith but in skeptism

I find it so funny that people find me so interesting.

Why didn't my mother ever tell me about you?" I asked my aunt. "Because I was a bad guy," my aunt said, looking directly at me. Her expression wasn't at all far away anymore. Her mouth was closed, but I could picture her missing tooth. My aunt was right: now that she'd said she was a bad guy, I wanted to know more. I wanted to know exactly how and why. "All right," I said instead, and we changed the subject.

Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.