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Quotes About Inquisitive

Q is a terrific part.
~ John de Lancie
Bill Nye, so that guy truly knows everything, and I tested him. I'd come in every day with some new question for him that I'd assuming he'd have no idea basically how to answer it - basically he knows everything.
~ David Hewlett
It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious biped alive.
~ Robert W. Chambers
It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious biped alive. From twenty until death he tries to conceal it.
~ Robert W. Chambers
Yo no soy un perverso, soy un curioso de esta fuerza enorme que está en mí.
~ Roberto Arlt
I have always been more curious than wise. Yet any wisdom I have ever gained has come to me from my curiosity. So I have never learned to turn away from it.
~ Robin Hobb
Daddy? Daddy, I know the baby is in the mommy"s tummy and the baby comes out of the mommy"s tummy, but, Daddy? How do that baby get in the mommy"s tummy?
~ Robyn Carr
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is Run and find out, and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
~ Rudyard Kipling
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is, Run and find out.
~ Rudyard Kipling
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
~ Rudyard Kipling
You look like a cat touching a mirror," said Carol, watching me. "You know the way they look at themselves and then reach out a paw as if they can't believe it's glass and not another cat?
~ Ruth Reichl
Their curled bodies are a pair of question mark at the end of the puzzling sentence of the day
~ Salman Rushdie
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
~ Albert Einstein
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
~ Fawn M. Brodie
Kids are clever and full of fun but, oh, they can be a terrible nuisance!
~ Alice Provensen
I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
~ Alice Sebold
The most interesting thing about babies is that they are so enormously interested; the most wonderful thing about them is their infinite capacity for wonder.
~ Alison Gopnik
A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.
~ Allan Pease
Do you always ask so many questions?" "My guidance counselor says it's the sign of an intellectually curious mind.
~ Joe Schreiber
What are you doing?" I asked Loretta. "Stabbing a cushion," she told me.
~ Joel N. Ross
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
~ E. M. Forster
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
~ E. Lockhart
Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!
~ E.M. Forster
As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours On the shore of the turbid Spoon With deep-set eye staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow, Waiting for him to appear, pushing ahead, First his waving antennae, like straws of hay, And soon his body, colored like soap-stone, Gemmed with eyes of jet. And you wondered in a trance of thought What he knew, what he desired, and why he lived at all.
~ Edgar Lee Masters