Quotes About Inquisitiveness

Die Neugier ist die mächtigste Antriebskraft im Universum, weil sie die beiden größten Bremskräfte im Universum überwinden kann: die Vernunft und die Angst.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Titubear sin angustia, tantear, cuestionar o sospechar no son defectos, forman parte de una mente escudriñadora y naturalmente incrédula e inconformista.

Yet chances are, for the rest of her life, that four-year-old girl will never again ask questions as instinctively, as imaginatively, or as freely as she does at that shining moment. Unless she is exceptional, that age is her questioning peak.

Being willing to question is one thing; questioning well and effectively is another.

If we're born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

when he came home from school, "while other mothers asked their kids 'Did you learn anything today?' [my mother ] would say, 'Izzy, did you ask a good question today?

to pry too hard into somebody else's business,

Why would anybody want to?

A los que evitan el pecado de la pereza intelectual podríamos llamarlos «diligentes». Están más alerta, son intelectualmente más activos, están menos dispuestos a quedarse satisfechos con respuestas superficialmente sugerentes, y son más escépticos con sus intuiciones.

Não se esforça a curiosidade, desperta-se

like this, questions other folks would have pretended were shocking and inappropriate.

Intelligence shows itself not so much in always having the right answers but in being able to ask the right questions.

Curiosity—actual curiosity—was one of the hallmarks of sentience and self-awareness

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.

He knew he had a lot to learn—that was why he was asking questions.

Save all your questions till the end, children.

Mark had so many questions, he couldn't get them out fast enough.

I'm interested in things that are none of my business, and I'm bored by things that are important to know." —Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes strip cartoon, 1994)

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next. Gray

Just go look. That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next.

Everything was of interest to him," marveled the French ambassador, Jean Jules Jusserand, "people of today, people of yesterday, animals, minerals, stones, stars, the past, the future.

Education means only this- that the lively alert fearless curiosity of children must be fed, must be kept alive. That is education.