Good sociologists have always had an insatiable curiosity about even the trivialities of human behaviour, and if this curiosity leads a sociologist to devote many years to the painstaking exploration...
When he is cheerful - - when the sun shines into his mind - - then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!
No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.
Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.
She {Mme des Laumes} belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.
Nothing is so difficult that it cannot be discovered by seeking.
"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"
It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.
Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe...
It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it?
The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.
He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.
No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.
I tried to explain again. 'Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your favourite song that you knew off by...
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...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...