Terry Pratchett Quotes

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

I think it's okay to ask questions. I don't think everything is answerable though.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.

On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.

If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

I do think that there is an innocence to people who are searching for things. It's a beautiful thing when you leave yourself vulnerable to discover anything and everything.

If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.

I feel there are so many things in this world that have been and are being created that I could spend the rest of my life thinking about, and I couldn't cover all the things I'm interested in. That to me is what makes life sweet-learning and exploring.

I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.

Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.