Quotes About Inquisitiveness

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.

He had that hungry mind, constantly turning things over, looking not for answers but for understanding.

Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he's saying. Even when they tell him outright. But also, he doesn't like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think - even when we don't feel like thinking.

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

The other boys crane their necks. Dr. Hauptmann's lips are pink and his eyelids are improbably thin. As though he is watching Werner even when he blinks. He says, "Make them all.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.

I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.

I'd really love to watch David Lynch work, to be a fly on the wall.

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.

The Hardys started down the street. They had gone only three blocks when their chubby friend Chet Morton jumped out of a yellow sedan which stopped briefly and then went on. He was munching an apple. "Hi, fellows," he greeted them. "I was on my way to your house. Phil gave me a ride. Going anywhere special?" "Well, sort of," Joe replied. "Why?" "Put it off," Chet insisted importantly. "I've got something to show you.

I was wildly interested in puberty as a child.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." Eugene

WHEN I GROW UP I'M GOING TO FIND OUT EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYBODY AND PUT IT ALL IN A BOOK. THE BOOK IS GOING TO BE CALLED SECRETS BY HARRIET M. WELSCH. I WILL ALSO HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS IN IT AND MAYBE SOME MEDICAL CHARTS IF I CAN GET THEM.

I want to know everything, everything, screeched Harriet suddenly, lying back and bouncing up and down on the bed. Everything in the world, everything, everything. I will be a spy and know everything. It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.