Quotes about Curiosity

What are you? Some kinda mermaid?" one man had shouted, and reached hurriedly for his socks.

Jumping from the roof of Mercy was the most interesting thing he had done.

Carol, if you could be a member of the opposite sex for twenty-four hours, and then pop back and be yourself again, who would you be and what would you do?" My mind started racing like mad. Opposite sex? For twenty-four hours? Who would I be? What would I do? I said a quick little prayer. Please, let me just open my mouth and have whatever comes out make sense. I took a deep breath and what came out was this: "I'd be Osama bin Laden, and I'd kill myself.

The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.

There are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

in the night I took a lantern and went to see for myself.

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.