Quotes About Inquisitiveness

I don't think anyone is boring, actually, if you ask the right questions and look at them the right way.

I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.

I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

I think I was a born scientist.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say.

I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.

Sources of Surprise: Make the time to read outside your immediate specialty—if necessary, taking time from more "active" tasks. Stick bookmarks in promising places, then graze the marked passages later. Allow yourself to become enthralled once in a while.

for the adage was: 'I fear the man of one book.' Trying

That's like a chimp asking why those hairless apes aren't slinging bigger feces than everyone else, if they're so damned clever.

I wanna know, can you show me I wanna know 'bout these Strangers Like Me Tell me more, please show me Something's familiar 'bout these Strangers Like Me

But his very best questions always popped out of his mind, unprepared, never having been written down in advance because they were the angle he picked up on the fly, as he heard an answer to a lesser question. Those creative questions were the art. It is what, in my mind, made his querying great.

George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon provides one of the simplest definitions of curiosity: the feeling of deprivation that comes from an information gap between what we know and what we want to know. Separately

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Are you prepared to have quite obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing?

Leo. Es como una enfermedad. Leo todo lo que cae en las manos, bajo los ojos: diarios, libros escolares, carteles, pedazos de papel encontrados por la calle, recetas de cocina, libros infantiles.

Let the Rabbit see the warren

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.