Quotes About Inquisitiveness

I love to learn new things, even though I might not master it. That takes a lot of time.

If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

Curiosity is the ultimate power tool.

I am more interested in dogs than in dogmas. Obviously

There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity

He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed.

Curiosity got the cat in trouble. Let's go.

Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them.

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

and I thought I might take him home and see how he works. It's really neat the way all those little bone things fit together, like a zipper.

There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin.

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt'ring eye and say, "Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?" The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.

And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.

The only people we can serve are curious, dissatisfied, or bored.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

I want to be a student for life.

Life is a buzzer box. Poke it.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up