Quotes About Inquisitiveness

him there?" asked Jess.

Creativity isn't learning the right answers but asking the strongest questions.

Whenever one asks "Why?" in science, one actually means "How?". "Why?" is not really a sensible question in science because it usually implies purpose and, as anyone who has been the parent of a small child knows, one can keep on asking "Why?" forever, no matter what the answer to the previous question. Ultimately, the only way to end the conversation seems to be to say "Because!

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Most people, if you give them a book, they sniff around on it awhile, then try to eat it.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying, 'Come up again, dear!' I shall only look up and say, 'Who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up -- if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else' -- but, oh, dear!

I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think— (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) —but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand? Or Australia?

was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book

Isn't it enough that this world exists?... Wai-Mae asked. No, Ling said. I want to know how it works. I just want to be happy, Wai-Mae said.

Curiosity is a terrible inducement.

A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.

Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Never stop questioning

Follow your curiosity.

how little one knows, really, about anything! And how grossly incurious one remains about so many things, what an enormous number of intrinsically astonishing achievements one merely takes for granted!

Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you travel, it is to see everything. Think what a figure you will make when you are asked, How do they execute at Rome? and you reply, I do not know!

Yes. Look at the way in which a little boy plays. He prods. He investigates things all around him. He moves them. He tries to push them over. Then look at girls. They touch things gently. They watch them. They don't try to push them about. They…" She searched for the right word. "They cherish them." The