Quotes About Inquisitive

At 12, still digesting every non-religious book he could get his hands on, he memorized a Latin vocabulary book.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Aurora asked.

I was someone who questioned. I was someone who probed. I was someone who looked under rocks and peeked into medicine cabinets.

Why, that means you're just a … busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.'

It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.

When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.

I don't want to be dead. I'm curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right?

No sé en qué consiste que soy naturalmente curioso; es un deseo de saberlo todo que nació conmigo, que siento bullir en todas mis venas, y que me obliga más de cuatro veces al día a meterme en rincones excusados por escuchar caprichos ajenos, que luego me proporcionan materia de diversión para aquellos ratos que paso en mi cuarto y a veces en mi cama sin dormir; en ellos recapacito lo que he oído, y río como un loco de los locos que he escuchado.

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder why stars .

She was inches from my face, really squinting , as if it were a section of a globe she'd never closely inspected before, an ocean filled with strings of unnamed islands.

said this. He kept on looking through

But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

The Lassans were insatiably inquisitive, and the concept of privacy was almost unknown to them. A Please Do Not Disturb sign was often regarded as a personal challenge, which led to interesting complications...

They don't read, and they can't write to save their lives. They've never heard of most of the presidents of the United States, they think America won the war in Vietnam, they think Prohibition was a law that made it illegal to own slaves. That was Cole's father, fuming about his students. Cole suspects at least some of this could also be said about Tracy. And it's not just what they don't know, it's what they don't want to know. Tracy is what his father would call intellectually lazy.

Since Mrs Pargeter had always favoured pulling bushes up by the roots rather than beating about them, she again asked directly what his problem was or who was making his life difficult