Quotes About Inquisitiveness

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hall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man

Sin embargo, ¡cuántas cosas estamos a punto de descubrir si la cobardía y la dejadez no entorpecieran nuestra curiosidad!

Cuántas cosas podríamos conocer si la cobardía y la pereza no entorpecieran nuestra curiosidad!

There is a certain sort of innocence that comes with curiosity. Who

Then accept it and think of something that would make you curious. For example

What the hell is wrong with you? he asked. It was a good question.

No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.

The thing about looking just a little bit means it's really easy to look a little bit more.

La curiosité, disait-elle, est la forme la plus pure de l'insoumission.

I'm too fascinated to hide indoors or stay cooped up in our yard. Curiosity killed the cat, I know, but I try to land on my feet.

Then again, do you have to be told every single thing about the world before you know it?

You can't blame human nature, and there was nothing more human than curiosity.

What do you read? I've never given a very satisfactory answer to that question, because it causes a kind of circuit overload in my brain. The easy answer ?Everything I can get my hands on!? is true enough, but not helpful.

ONCE EINSTEIN SAW the needle of a compass at the age of four, he always understood that there had to be "something behind things, something deeply hidden.

But there's something about sitting at someone else's desk that makes you feel like looking in the drawers. I resisted the impulse briefly. Then I decided what the hell. I was a private investigator. Poking my nose in where it didn't belong came with the territory.

I see other people crossing the street at the curb and I don't know how they can do it.

But wouldn't it be nice if we all smuggled a few childlike instincts across the border into adulthood? We'd spend more time saying what we mean and asking questions we care about;

It's much better to ask small questions than big ones.

The next time you run into a question that you can only pretend to answer, go ahead and say "I don't know"—and then follow up, certainly, with "but maybe I can find out." And work as hard as you can to do that. You may be surprised by how receptive people are to your confession, especially when you come through with the real answer a day or a week later.

If you are willing to confront the obvious, you will end up asking a lot of questions that others don't.

I wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.

I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.

I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time.