Curiosity Quotes
The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.
On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.
Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.
It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.
He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.
Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.
Children live life as a controlled experiment.
All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.
Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.
Curiosity is my great vice. I fear you have seen through to the heart of me, and now seek to exploit my weakness
Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.
If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.
Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.
His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.
Movies lost their appeal when people realized their real lives were more interesting.
I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.
I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity
Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.
Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.
One of the many drawbacks of this "I teach what I am" approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.
For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.
Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections.
And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.
It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.
A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiviness is bitter or sweet.
I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than “What's up?
Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.
To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...
Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?
So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.
Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.
...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)
I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class
