Quotes About Curiosity

Mire Hacia Las Estrellas. Look At The Stars.

I had tried many times to tell her that my suicide attempt was only my way of trying to escape the permanence of the sun. With frankness, and using my limited psychological knowledge and powers of articulation, I tried to explain to her that I had attempted suicide out of a kind of curiosity, or maybe as a challenge to nature, to the cosmos itself, to the recurring light. I felt oppressed by it all.

It's just that I'd rather get to know you before I get to know your lips.

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

With schools turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word "intellectual," of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

The enchantment of intelligence seems to be reduced to "nothing" when we fully understand its methods. The mystery that is left is the intrigue inspired by the remaining, not as yet understood methods of intelligence.

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

No puedo recordar a mi hermana, me pregunto sin embargo qué acerca a la gente al cañón de una escopeta y qué nos mantiene al resto alejados.

I went up to a girl in a bar once and asked her where she was from. I guess she wasn't interested, because she said, "Mars." So I asked, "You need a ride home?"

He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.

I stepped out into the night air that nobody had yet found out how to option. But a lot of people were probably trying. They'd get around to it.

Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini.

Your desire for something due to your half knowledge about it is enough for you to fall into a pit.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

I was about thirteen when I started letting boys feel me up.