Quotes About Inquisitive

Teach Your Children Well A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. —attributed to Samuel Johnson, dedication to Jerónimo Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia, 1775

Never was a Family more insistent on learning one another's movements than were the Bunch. All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week.

I'm curious about life, period.

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens, ' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.

If you look at 4-year-olds, they are constantly asking questions. But by the time they are 6½ years old, they stop asking questions because they quickly learn that teachers value the right answers more than provocative questions.

She could not go on a bus without having an adventure, usually brought about by not minding her own business, and there was always some curious incident to relate to Vinny when he returned home in the evening.

If she didn't go, she'd wonder

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?" —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.

I've always been a rebel, always curious about the world around me.

I have always been rebellious, but that is because I've wanted to do different things, try out new things.

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

It was like the baby was demanding, with its eyes: Hurry up, tell me what all this shit is, so I can master it, open a few shops.

since he'd never even heard that described as being possible. And from that day on, whenever he found himself wondering

Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

Children of five and upwards write asking if it's my own hair, whether I'm married, how old I am, what's inside a Dalek and how Tardis works. Nearly all of them send me drawings of Daleks and incidents from stories.

When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it. There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.

I like to know a tiny bit about almost everything. I do like a pub quiz.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.