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Quotes About Inquisitiveness

Let's try and pay more attention to what's around us. Look up. Look down - if only so you don't trip. Ask questions. You know how kids always ask "why?" Ask why. Then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. And then ask why again. Don't stop asking why until you get the answer you're looking for. Or until you're escorted away by security, whichever comes first.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
I went to the doctor to get a sonogram. I'm not pregnant, I just like to take a look once in a while; see what's going on in there.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Raven?' Yes?' What do you believe in?' I believe in - finding out!
~ Ellen Schreiber
Who put these fingerprints on my imagination?
~ Elvis Costello
Dare to ask questions whenever you are not clarified. Never feel too wise or too educated to learn something new from someone else or others. For, you don't know it all and you will never know it all. Yes! learning is meant to be a continuous process.
~ Emeasoba George
What was the point of living in a suburb if one couldn't show a healthy curiosity about one's neighbours?
~ Barbara Pym
Scanners can't choose one direction. It's like telling a parent to choose one child to feed. It's just not possible. A parent knows she has to feed all her children. And a Scanner must find a way to follow every path that interests her.
~ Barbara Sher
You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.
~ Barbara Sher
The attitude was a sense of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable. A feeling of this kind leads to ignorance of the world and of others because it suppresses curiosity.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Everything interested him and everything excited him.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
~ James Harvey Robinson
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care.
~ Dean Kamen
People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all.
~ Tracy McGrady
I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
~ Karin Slaughter
It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.
~ Ellen Stofan
Everyone was watching Maigret. Children followed him, one of them imitating his heavy gait.
~ Georges Simenon
She opened her eyes very wide at
~ Georgette Heyer
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
~ Gerry Spence
Henry and Jessie did not say any more about the Indian boy, but they did not forget him. Once in awhile they both wondered where he came from and why he was there. They also wondered why he did not want to be seen.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
~ Saul Bellow
What I learned from Jeff (and his daughter) that day is the importance of constantly, maybe even obsessively, asking "why" in your business. I learned that when you start to question things, you wind up creating these "aha" moments, which combine a sense of wonder with the knowledge of how to get something done.
~ Scott Duffy
Always there is something of interest to be seen if one but knows where to look for it.
~ Seabury Quinn
I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
~ Alan Alda
As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me.
~ Chelsea Manning