Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik’s face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh?...

For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and savoring teachers who seemed to be ambassadors from other, richer, writer...

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there – reality – contains a hidden order, and the scientist is trying to elucidate the hidden order in our reality. And...

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized...

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

The secret of wisdom is to be overly curious, like a cat–to take the time to look closely, to use all your senses to see and to touch and to taste and to smell and...

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

One of see. S. Louis’s endeavors as a teacher was to persuade young people that first-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring then second-hand knowledge, but it is usually much easier and more delightful...

Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.

It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that...

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you’re too curious.

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then...

Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads...

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people...

It is very odd to be standing in a locked room in the Penitentiary, speaking with a strange man about France and Italy and Germany. A travelling man. He must be a wanderer, like Jeremiah...

Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you’ll learn more.

Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to...

Don’t differentiate between “This is a job” and “This is what I’m doing for fun.” It’s all simultaneous.

That’s Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they’re the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, “I went to college with every person I ever met.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.

Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.

Thinkers aren’t limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they’re limited by what puzzles them, because there’s no way to become curious about something that doesn’t puzzle you.

In the real world, the tests are all open book.

The ability to retain a child’s view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare – and a person who has these...

Mermon’s tiny black dot eyes managed to widen into larger black dots. “No, no, no, Sir. I was just… curious.” “Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes you...

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

History teacher Bob Alston’s “expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to...

Who knows what adventure we might find here?” Drizzt said excitedly. “Who knows what secrets might be unveiled to us?””Adventure?” Dunkin asked incredulously, looking to the carnage along the beach, and to the zombies still...

It’s part of a writer’s job to be nosy about everything.

If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing....

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking...

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

I’m always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

So now you must choose… Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it...

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations.

Absence of questions is not proof of answers.

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

Non può esservi alcuna sottomissione – perché il fatto stesso che parliamo di questi argomenti indica che vi è curiosità, e la curiosità è insubordinazione nella forma più pura.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.