You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTags: friendship reality curiosity wise pessimistic
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.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom science imagination intelligence education knowledge questions history philosophy children humility curiosity uncertainty inquiry theology challenge not-knowing
Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.
Ifeanyi Enoch OnuohaTags: curiosity
Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.
Damien EcholsTags: god ambition curiosity mysterious
You ask a lot of questions, don't you?"
"My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.
Tags: curiosity
You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!
Georgette HeyerTags: curiosity
Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly and political affairs: he is a snoop and a voyeur; he comments and classifies; his taxonomic impulse makes the novel appear to be a vast compendium, replete with burrowing wasps and bedsteads, military strategies, stereoscopes, asparagus and aeroplanes.
Adam A. WattTags: knowledge curiosity proust know-thyself gnothi-seauton
Are you missing the library again?" Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room.
Kendra turned to face her brother. "You caught me," she congratulated him. "I'm reading."
"I bet the librarians back home are panicking. Summer vacation, and no Kendra Sorenson to keep them in business. Have they been sending you letters?"
"Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment."
Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?"
"I bet you'll tell me."
" 'If you're reading this, you are one.' "
You're a riot." Kendra turned back to the journal, flipping to a random page.
Seth took a seat on his bed across from her. "Kendra, seriously, I can sort of see reading a cool book for fun, but dusty old journals? Really? Has anybody told you there are magical creatures out there?" He pointed out the window.
"Has anybody told you some of those creatures can eat you?" Kendra responded. "I'm not reading these just for fun. They have good info."
"like what? Patton and Lena smooching?"
Kendra rolled her eyes. "I'm not telling. You'll end up in a tar pit."
"There's a tar pit?" he said, perking up. "Where?
Tags: reading books curiosity library nerd
That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.
Marni BatesTags: curiosity mackenzie-wellesley
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
Bryant McGillTags: happiness curiosity secrets
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