Quotes About Inquisitiveness

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it. I want to get down into it. I want to say hello. On the beach, I could have stopped all day long and looked at those damned shells, looked for all the messages that come not in bottles but in shells...

I had wanted to become a novelist before I even knew how to read, back when I could only consume books by having them read to me, and none of them seemed long enough. They left too many questions unanswered, too many ramifications unexplored.

My flight led me through twisting companion-ways and chambers vast and tiny and in between, whose purpose was indeterminate because I did not stop to investigate.

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

His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.

He dived deeper and deeper into his books; he had taken all obsolescence to be his province; in his disgust at the stupid usual questions, "Will it pay?" "What good is it?" and so forth, he would only read what was uncouth and useless.

The breaking off, in the midst of that one was about to say, as if he took himself up, breeds a greater appetite in him with whom you confer, to know more.

A man that is busy, and inquisitive, is commonly envious. For to know much of other men's matters, cannot be because all that ado may concern his own estate; therefore it must needs be, that he taketh a kind of play-pleasure, in looking upon the fortunes of others. Neither can he, that mindeth but his own business, find much matter for envy. For envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets, and doth not keep home: Non est curiosus, quin idem sit malevolus.

Will the reader turn the page?

I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't sit there reading 'New Scientist,' putting post-it notes next to ideas.

The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.

Voltaire once wrote, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Sir

He widened the hole with his finger and looked inside.

Education stems from the desire to learn. With that, you don't need schools. Without it, all the schools in the UNIVERSE are useless.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

It's important always to have a sense of wonder.

At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.

It's human nature to wonder.

I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.

I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.