Quotes About Inquisitiveness

Something else to ask her landlord about… or maybe

For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my ears and in my small body.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

One cannot know everything.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

The more you know, the more you yearn for knowledge.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

Certainty ends inquiry.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Curiosity could be a powerful distraction.

there is a kind of connectedness between the seemingly random questions of very small kids.

It seemed to Whish that any potential crack was worth trying to open," wrote the scientists. "Even a person's face was not sacrosanct. He would fly to the face and clutch hole on the nose arch. He would then hang upside down and peer into the nostrils.

Curiosity killed the—Bex!