Quotes About Curiosity

Why should we all act so like children? Because we are? Yes, I suppose so." She made a humorous grimace. "But even then, why?" She pondered this for some time. "I suppose it was worth while-all those things I made-in a way," she mused, "and I suppose I wouldn't have made them, otherwise." She looked doubtful. "Is that it? So we will do the things that would not seem worth while-if we stopped to think?"...Yes, that was it!

Perhaps one of the most important lessons of philosophy is to teach us how to live with the questions unanswered , rather than settle for unsatisfactory but popular answers.

He'd never eaten out with Owen before, and their clothes invoked curious glances from the staff of the restaurant.

You were the one that led them a merry dance. Now, I expect, they will want an explanation. I myself am waiting to hear it.

Was it an awakening to the bizarreness of the world that instigated their flight, or was curiosity a consequence of their running away?

I have never seen anything like this," Bayard said. "It is…strange. I almost do not want this power-to make a man an animal.

You are very fond of this Rayojini creature. Therefore, she must be an extremely intriguing individual.

Were there any places in this shunned landscape that bloomed with colour and life?

You are an ingenuous little terranaut, who is having a series of grubby adventures.

Ays felt sure the man would swing across to them soon. What would he say? In his heart, Ays prepared himself, scripted questions. Was it you at the wind orchestra, you in the shadows of this morning? Why? What do you want of me? He longed to hear the answer, feeling it would somehow open his perceptions for more than the strongest dose of hela ever would.

Are you just a bored man with too much money, who needs to while away the long hours of an empty life by mystifying people?

She appeared to be confused as if Finnigin's questions had thrown her into a state where she herself had begun to ask questions.

All he saw of the house, as Taropat carried him through its dim-lit rooms, were picture fragments: a high-backed chair: a tilted painting of a frowning face: the gleam of a crystal ball on a cluttered table; a tattered cloth hung from the ceiling; cracked pain on the walls beside the stairs.

You don't mean to say you're going to abandon your quest for knowledge? I thought you wanted to unravel the enigmas of the world single-handed!

Melandra found that the word Grigori acted like an cantrip-it opened doors and minds.

She seemed less interested in the fact that Daniel had met a man, that that it had allowed her diversions of her own.

Was his purpose in being here simply to find a new, more impulsive side to himself? He would be the first to admit that might be an improvement.

I want to hate you, yet I can't. There is something more to you than what you show, something I don't know.

This man could not be human, but at that point, Louis did not care.

He glanced at Aninka, his eyes alight with the kind of excitement she did not want to see.

And who are you exactly? Might I ask what you want?" "We want you," said the man. "And who am I?

Neither of them particularly understood what they were feeling because they were very innocent and neither of them had any idea what the strange sensations in their bodies could mean or how they could be satisfied.

His way might be the right way. It is certainly one way. Why not let him proceed and see what happens?

As one, the silent gathering slid out onto the balcony, human patrons in pursuit.