Quotes About Inquisitiveness

D?l paiko smalsumo žmon?s kartais net praranda tik?jim?.

When a child's mind begins to wander because of something you (the teacher) have said, wander with it. When it begins to wander because of nothing you said, kick yourself in the posterior and say something worth wandering about!

My life has taught me to be more curious than afraid.

The constant happiness is curiosity.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Life is good. Or at least, it's always interesting.

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity

I was inclined to drift away from the sum to wonder why people would care what time two trains passed each other (spies), be so picky about seating arrangements (recently divorced people), or—which to this day remains incomprehensible—run the bath with no plug in.

Common politeness required that I find out; so did extreme nosiness.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?

Elle écoutait avec attention tous les gens qui parlaient de ce qu'elle ignorait, par curiosité, par envie de montrer qu'elle était ouverte aux connaissances. S'élever, pour elle, c'était d'abord apprendre (elle disait, "il faut meubler son esprit") et rien n'était plus beau que le savoir. Les livres étaient les seuls objets qu'elle manipulait avec précaution. Elle se lavait les mains avant de les toucher.

Once the Europeans become interested in you they make it a point to learn everything they can about your personal and professional life.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

Aunque no estaba propiamente enamorado, sentía una especie de tierna curiosidad.

molti tipi curiosi e reso vittima di non pochi inveterati scocciatori.

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

I am generally fascinated by what are the big, challenging questions - that's behind my curiosity.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.