Quotes About Curiosity

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

Something great is going to happen today, I can't wait to see what it Is!

I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

Quali sono, quindi le prime impressioni che un bimbo nomade ha del mondo? Un capezzolo dondolante e una cascata d'oro.

Un marabutto smise di pregare per interrogarmi. "Esiste un popolo chiamato mericani?" chiese. "Sì". "Dicono che hanno visitato la luna". "E' vero". "Sono blasfemi".

His one friend was the black boy, Pepeu, whom he held in thrall. Together they plucked finches alive, made certain experiments with the flesh of a watermelon, and shouted obscenities at the girls washing tripes in the river.    Once, they tried crucifying a cat, but it got away.

I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world.

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

A child in an environment where they feel loved and safe will choose to leave their comfort zone. Safe and familiar is "boring"; a safe and stable child is a curious child-they want to explore new things. A child who feels unsafe, however, won't want this. It's an essential rule of healthy development: A sense of safety and stability provides a foundation for healthy growth.

My father, Vernon, used to tell me I would never have been born if he hadn't been curious about what was underneath my mother's pink poodle skirt.

Human beings fear what they don't understand. The unknown scares us.

Lacan even goes so far as to classify ignorance as a passion greater than love or hate: a passion not to know.

I homogenize saw you on the street last night")

It takes a conscious effort to expose yourself to new ideas.

There was nothing haphazard about Bruce's training regime, neither was he particularly "lucky" in having started out with natural physical gifts. The greatest talents that Bruce brought to realizing his dreams were intelligence and curiosity (hand in hand, a powerful combination), dedication and perseverance (stick-to-itiveness even in the face of intervening obstacles), and focus (enjoying the journey as much as the destination).

I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

How much sinning could you actually have done at a second-grade level?

A race without curiosity will never explore every possibility

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

If you don't have a sense of wonder it's like you're dead inside. But your sense of wonder can be used to trick you. You can have a sense of wonder over a thing that's basically a conjurer's trick, or a con job, or a rip-off.