Quotes About Inquisitive

Who do I look like, Nancy freaking Drew?

Pray tell," she said, although her voice told him not to. He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...

I see," I said, which is something I very often say when I don't.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I'd like to know why he shouldn't come in and look around.

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

Though we can of course use our minds without being in pain, Proust's suggestion is that we become properly inquisitive only when distressed. We suffer, therefore we think, and we do so because thinking helps us to place pain in context. It helps us to understand its origins, plot its dimensions, and reconcile ourselves to its presence.

touche à tout', and until I was twelve or so

what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.

Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

And despite the lateness of the hour rushed to her set of encyclopaedias.

As a kid, I had my head under the hood of a car, either an old Ford or a Chevrolet, just learning about it so if anything happened, I could repair it.

I Googled it all." Dortmunder had heard of this; some other nosey parker way to mind everybody else's business.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Be curious about life, and cautious with it!

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

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So at about age 10, Albert started to teach himself. He was going to read as much about science as he could.

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.

Then she did what any girl would do: she Googled him.