Quotes About Inquisitiveness

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know.

So many things fail to interest us, simply because they don't find in us enough surfaces on which to live, and what we have to do is to increase the number of planes in our mind, so that a much larger number of themes can find a place in it at the same time

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Count Chojnicki was curious. No other passion than curiosity sent him out into the world, drew him to the tables of the great gaming halls, sequestered him behind the walls of his old hunting pavilion, sat him down on the parliamentarians' benches, determined that he would return home every spring, compelled him to throw his regular parties, and prevented him from cutting his own throat. It was curiosity that kept him alive.

It's not many cats who'd try foxhunting before they were even out of the nursery.

Then what are you interested in, Herobrine?" I asked. "Why are you here?

Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back.

Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves. The

but what I am not interested in, Ms. Clipboard- or Mr. Canker or Mrs. Murmur or Call-me-Carol, all of you- is your questions; even your pointing and tipping Enoch pencils have six sides, my dear definers: pay heed whereon you pinch!; I am interested, almost exclusively, in being interested, and your reductivist probings are only intended to cordon off wings of my mansion;

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

To my knowledge, there are, pretty much, two ways to be interesting: One is to actually do interesting things, achieve the remarkable. The other way to be interesting is to be interested, curious about the world and about other people - not relentlessly revelatory about yourself.

Replace judgment with curiosity.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

I am not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

Bill Brittain

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

What are you reading for?

The yearning to know about nature and where or how we fit in is deep within all of us.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream