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Quotes About Inquisitive

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I said, "All along I have been wondering how you got to be the way you are. Just how it was that you got to be the way you are.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
He had already decided to study law, not because he intended to be a lawyer, but because, he told Bradford, "the principles and modes of government are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind
~ Lynne Cheney
Once in a while they show up to ask some more questions, but you are amiable, slightly stupid, and very polite.
~ John D. MacDonald
He chuckled and pulled himself to his feet. "End of session, McGee. Good night and good luck." At the door he turned and said, "I'll have you checked out, of course. Just for the hell of it. I'm a careful and inquisitive man.
~ John D. MacDonald
Who'll try it?" Samantha asked.
~ John Grisham
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
~ John Irving
You can see why we children asked so many questions. It is a vague story, the kind parents prefer to tell.
~ John Irving
I inherited curiosity from my Dad.
~ Unknown
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
~ Albert Einstein
He asked only for curiosity's sake, because it was his nature to seek out answers, to press others for their weaknesses.
~ Madeline Miller
She reads books all the time. Sometimes for an hour without stopping!" "That's not too good, Galinette. A poor girl who reads books—I can't say I care for that...
~ Marcel Pagnol
Is it painful? the groundskeeper asked. I am asking for science.
~ John Scalzi
I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.
~ John Steinbeck
He was proud of her wild, exploring mind.
~ John Steinbeck
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
~ Haruki Murakami
You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.
~ Nicole Kidman
I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.
~ Luisa Valenzuela
It is not what you say, it is the questions you ask that are important. The only stupid question is the one you dont ask.
~ Unknown
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
~ Albert Einstein
I am still that child. I eavesdrop on the conversations of strangers in restaurants, in airports and supermarkets. I drive my husband crazy with questions sometimes; but I am still a good listener and I still keep secrets.
~ Marge Piercy
Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina's most endearing trait?]
~ Unknown
Se menos curioso acerca de las personas y más curioso acerca de las ideas.
~ Marie Curie
I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don't ask than we don't learn.
~ Kai Greene