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Quotes About Inquisitiveness

I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.
~ Gayle Lynds
Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.
~ Mark Parker
Curiosity is the most important.
~ Tasuku Honjo
Before I met Park Bo-gum, I was curious what he would be like.
~ Kwak Dong-yeon
I'm a very curious person.
~ Domenico Dolce
Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
~ Katherine Johnson
If someone really interests you, you'll learn about them yourself.
~ Richard North Patterson
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
~ Richard Whately
At first I thought it was a fur cap; now I see it's alive. Castor pointed to the furry heap on the counter. It was slowly slithering toward the edge. The shopkeeper reached out and headed it back to the middle. That?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Why? Why does anybody want to go anywhere? Why did the bear go round the mountain? To see what he could see! I've never seen the Rings. That's reason enough to go anywhere. The race has been doing it for all time. The dull ones stay home—and the bright ones stir around and try to see what trouble they can dig up. It's the human pattern. It doesn't need a reason, any more than a flat cat needs a reason to buzz. Why anything?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
If it's really education you want for Nathan,' Buell said, 'have him read the papers, so he'll know what's going on in the world, and why. Teach him to be interested in everything he doesn't understand - interested enough to find out about it from books or people that aren't afraid to tell the truth.
~ Kenneth Roberts
You couldn't blame him, no, you couldn't fault him for wanting to go deeper into every fleeting moment, to study its mystery.
~ Kim Edwards
I'm glad I don't know everything, Dorothy, and that there still are things in both nature and in wit for me to marvel at.
~ L. Frank Baum
Dorothy looked at him curiously. His head was quite bulged out at the top with brains. How do you feel? she asked. I feel wise indeed, he answered earnestly. When I get used to my brains I shall know everything. Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head? asked the Tin Woodman. That is proof that he is sharp, remarked the Lion.
~ L. Frank Baum
I just love thinking about what makes people tick
~ Jessica Ennis
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
~ Yiddish Proverb
A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
~ Yiddish Proverb
start each day with that i don't understand
~ yo yo ma
He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.
~ Yôko Ogawa
He preferred smart questions to smart answers.
~ Yôko Ogawa
Curiosity led to empathy - the great enemies of self-righteousness.
~ Yossi Klein Halevi
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might even be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
~ Yukio Mishima
Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game
~ Zilpha Keatley Snyder
It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.
~ Deborah Meier