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Quotes About Inquisitive

With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners.
~ Henry James
Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.
~ James Collins
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
~ Walt Disney
From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.
~ Homaro Cantu
Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.
~ Andrew Bird
I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.
~ Viggo Mortensen
I'm essentially a traveller. I love to do many things.
~ Ashish Vidyarthi
I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
One thing about Italians is you can't let them in your head. They're inquisitive. The English and Germans are a dog tribe; the Italians are cats. They're very helpful, but it's in their own rhythm, their own way, and it can drive you crazy.
~ Terence Trent D'Arby
I don't want you to trust me, I want you to question everything I say.
~ Jacque Fresco
There's a new kind of woman out there…She doesn't have time to shop anymore. She wants to know what and why and where and how.
~ Anna Wintour
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
~ Tony Robbins
The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
~ Stephen Fry
I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.
~ Terry Gross
Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.
~ Jose Andres
I'm intrigued by smart people.
~ Vittoria Ceretti
I'm an information junkie, and I don't mean that in snobby way. I'm not talking about world information. I just like to know what's going on, especially pop-culturally. It interests me.
~ Danielle Schneider
The man's face displeased her. It looked ironic to her, and she detested irony. She always thought that irony (all forms of irony) was like an armed guard posted at the entrance to her future, scrutinizing her with an inquisitive eye and rejecting her with a shake of the head.
~ Milan Kundera
She'd read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren't supposed to.
~ Terry Pratchett
Let me through. I'm a nosy person.' she said, employing both elbows. It worked, as this sort of approach generally does.
~ Terry Pratchett
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
~ Diane Sawyer
I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might feel responsible for answering them.
~ Gwen Ifill
I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.
~ Doug Aitken
And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
~ Bob Schieffer