top of page
.png){kind=small}
"As a writer, I've always been interested in others."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Curiosity quotes
"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."
"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."
"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."
"When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart."
"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."
"Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine," Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied."
Explore more quotes by Antonio Tabucchi
"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."
"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."
"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."
"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."
"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy."
"I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history."
bottom of page