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Quotes About Inquisitive

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~ Lynsay Sands
Não sei se alguma vez tiveste dezessete anos. Se sim, deves saber que é a idade em que a metade do homem e a metade do menino formam um só curioso.
~ Machado de Assis
Não sei se alguma vez tiveste dezessete anos. Se sim, deves saber que é a idade em que a metade do homem e a metade do menino formam um só curioso.
~ Machado de Assis
As a child, when I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Those who succeed in life are those who are unashamed to ask silly questions.
~ Mensah Oteh
I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.
~ Guy Davenport
In questo 'Ndondò ha ragione. Non si tratta di doveroso interesse professionale, ma di profonda curiosità umana. Lui è fatto così. Di ogni suo paziente vorrebbe sapere tutto della sua vita privata, fin dalla nascita.
~ Andrea Camilleri
I needed to know more. Call it my detective's instinct. (Not for nothing has Abby nicknamed me Agatha Kristy!)
~ Ann M. Martin
He discovered a great ambition to excel, which roused him to counteract his indolence. He was uncommonly inquisitive; and his memory was so tenacious, that he never forgot any thing that he either heard or read. Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses, which, after a little pause, he repeated verbatim, varying only one epithet, by which he improved the line.
~ Samuel Johnson
It seemed necessary for him to lift one shoulder in order to put his hand into his jacket pocket.
~ Saul Bellow
Why is it that children, taught the names of the months and the fact that there are twelve of them, don't ask why the ninth is called the seventh (September), the tenth called the eight (October), the eleventh called the ninth (November), the twelfth called the tenth (December)?
~ John Cage
It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.
~ Irving Kahn
Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something
~ Paulo Coelho
A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.
~ Anuj
A trait that showed up at about this time was my tendency not to accept anything I was told until I had checked it for myself.
~ Edward O. Thorp
One thing life taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
~ Madison Davenport
Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
~ Noam Chomsky
I was religious probably until I was about eight but I always questioned stuff very early on.
~ Richard Herring
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
~ Anne Rice
I just love asking questions. I love people. It's in my DNA. I'm cursed - and blessed.
~ Larry King
I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.
~ Kathy Ireland
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
~ Carl Van Vechten
That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did.
~ Helen Suzman