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Curiosity Quotes
"Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it."
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"He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed."
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"There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking."
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"We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts."
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"Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?"
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"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."
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"I have an attraction to strangeand unusual things.I find them interesting,spellbinding,utterly fascinating."
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"You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting."
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"The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place."
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"There is so much we do not know about the imagination. That is why we must study it."
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"My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet-that's not a problem. The problem is that I just can't live anywhere on the planet."
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"I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth."
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"But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars."
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"The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look."
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"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."
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"And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort."
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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."
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"We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Method B, the parachute jump. Then we began experimenting with Method C. There is a principle that says if you lay out a lonely solitaire game in the center of the wilderness, someone will soon come along to look over your shoulder and tell you how to play your cards. This was the principle of Method C. We unrolled our sleeping bags and stretched out under the wing, completely uncaring."
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"I'm very curious why people in school all the time from 2-3 class up to the last 6-7 they talk about football. What can be said??Sharing about a team few sentences, who has won, and rought said that's all. But why people stretch it like a Turkish delight with the same end???"
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"Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries."
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"It is better to wonder than worry."
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"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."
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"When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!"
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