Quotes About Curiosity

I am going to move to St. Petersburg," Boris said, his voice a crisp rasp. "You have relatives there?" Rostnikov said, ignoring the non sequitur. "No, never. That is why I want to go there.

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.

Curiosity never killed this cat' — that's what I'd like as my epitaph

a time when many great thinkers and philosophers emerged, all writing and debating their ideas. Most interestingly, people actually liked to listen to them! These scholars were also teachers or gurus and had schools called ashramas or gurukulas, where they taught students. Towns even had special assembly halls for debates called kautuhala shalas, that is, halls for arousing curiosity!

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.

Fiction, nonfiction. Biography, memoir. Science, psychology. History. Everything had its place. That was the beauty of libraries. No surprise except when someone screwed up, or was lazy, or was a thief.

Vivir en un mundo donde las respuestas a las preguntas pueden ser tantas y tan buenas es lo que me hace salir de la cama y calzarme las botas cada mañana.

Vivimo en un mundo que no sólo es más extraño de lo que pensamos, sino más extraño de lo que podemos pensar." Sir James Hopwood Jeans

Vivimos en un mundo que no sólo es más extraño de lo que pensamos, sino más extraño de lo que podemos pensar." Sir James Hopwood Jeans

Curiosity comes out of a sense of safety; rigidity out of being vigilant to threats.

Impossible? I don't believe in impossible, hard to get maybe, but that makes it all the more interesting.

If you have lost touch with your dreams and desires, a good way to retrieve them is to remember what you dreamed of doing and being as a kid.

Sue Stauffacher

In my opinion it is essential to get lost in a new city, that way you are forced to walk about and discover places at a proper, natural pace. But you must have the taxi fare home, and it helps if you can remember the name of your hotel.

Found strange device in bathroom this morning. It looked like an egg timer. It said "Predictor" on the side of the box. I hope my Mother is not dabbling with the occult

Mrs Ball. They

Pauline: "All under-fives are mad Adrian, you used to talk to the moon. You invited it to your birthday party and cried when it didn't turn up." George: "When it went dark and the moon came up, you ran outside and threw a sausage roll at it!

I have realised I have never seen a dead body or a real female nipple. This is what comes of living in a cul-de-sac.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

I've read too many books to believe what I am told.

I'm one that will cause people to scratch their heads in wonderment in search of their hollow hearts and look in their souls and wonder, Where did he come from? What is he?

When I enter a Library ... I still have a reassuring sense that it is going to tell me all I need to know.

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.