Quotes About Inquisitive

Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

Only a fool thinks he knows everything.

After all, it's natural for humans, isn't it? To want to learn. Being curious, wanting answers: that's the way we are.

Maia's greatest desire when she grows up is to be interesting as well. She knows that to become interesting, she must read, travel, and learn new things.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

And Belle? She was an odd girl who liked to read.

I found your nose... It was in my business again.. ( :

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

I'm incurably nosey - so naturally I'm a great reader.

I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

I Google everyone I meet and I look up designers.

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

I remember in third grade, I asked my mom, 'How does an engine work?' So my mom bought me a book.

I am very greedy as an actor. I want to explore as much as possible.

Maggie Tulliver, you perceive, was by no means that well trained, well-informed young person that a small female of eight or nine necessarily is in these days; she had only been to school a year at St. Ogg's, and had so few books that she sometimes read the dictionary; so that in travelling over her small mind you would have found the most unexpected ignorance as well as unexpected knowledge.

Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.