Quotes about Curiosity

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not'

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

My mom cautioned me not to become a gossip! I was always up in people's business. People told me stuff... even when I didn't ask and I channeled my story gathering and good sources into a hunger for the news.