Quotes About Inquisitive

Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Curiosity didn't kill the cat. It emboldened the cat.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)

And I like asking questions, to keep learning people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

I remember being, like, 4 and 5 and playing in my mom's closet. But also asking questions like 'Who's this?' and 'What's that?,' and my mom explaining to me, 'This is a Chanel and this is a Versace.'

Because I want to know how it works.

Accept nothing, believe no one, and challenge everything

She was bright, intellectually curious, and sociable

As is true in many houses with small children, questions are asked all the time in ours, but these are seldom about big-picture matters. Why is there yogurt on the TV? Why are my car keys in the trash? Where's the front doorknob? Who let a squirrel in the house?

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

I've always loved being a student.

When in school, I was interested in many things other than studies.

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

I'm quite a studious person, I think.

I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen; I can visualise it through them.

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

I always like learning the small details about a subject.

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.