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Quotes About Inquisitiveness

y por fin nuestra curiosidad pudo más que nuestros temores; nos arriesgamos a retroceder, aunque lentamente y dispuestos a salir huyendo a la menor alarma.
~ Mark Twain
What are you assholes looking at?
~ Markus Zusak
What would you rather? yelled Sybil from the distant sandpit. Know everything or know nothing? Know nothing, I yelled back. Then you have the fun of finding everything out.
~ Martin Amis
Stavano con lui per ore, accasciati per terra - punti interrogativi accoccolati in una pozza di trucioli di legno - e si chiedevano come mai Velutha sembrava sempre sapere quali forme levigate lo aspettassero all'interno di un pezzo di legno.
~ Arundhati Roy
Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I guess that's natural, but I'm not sure why.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than "What's up?
~ Stephen Chbosky
The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know.
~ Stephen Fry
As a father, I would try to instill the importance of asking questions, always.
~ Stephen Hawking
She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.
~ Stephen King
Curiosity is a terrible thing, but it's human.
~ Stephen King
Curiosity killed the cat, you know, but satisfaction brought him back snap-ass happy.
~ Stephen King
Curiosity improved the cat
~ Brandon Nankivell
Love is three quarters curiosity.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Never lose a holy curiosity.
~ Albert Einstein
A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.
~ Jon Krakauer
Most people aren't overly afflicted with curiosity. It separates the creative and the tormented from the rest of the pack. —
~ Jonathan Kellerman
We need to be brave enough to dissect a frog now and then, to see what's inside.
~ Eric Metaxas
Why shouldn't I know what's going on?" Jaypaw dug his claws into the grass. "It's not fair if I can't even be curious!" "Curiosity must be tempered with patience," Yellowfang insisted. "Knowledge is wasted on those without the wisdom to know how to use it. And wisdom comes only with time.
~ Erin Hunter
The life I give you is for curiosity, for the courage to find out what lies beyond the horizon. Never turn down a chance to learn something more.
~ Erin Hunter
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
~ beecher henry ward ii
What are those?" I asked, pointing up. "Those are ceiling," Varya said. "And here—sink. See—only turn so, and ffft! water!
~ Bel Kaufman
Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
~ Ben Johnson