Quotes About Inquisitiveness

Are you asking because you really want an answer?

When you sneak into somebody's backyard, it does seem that guts and curiosity are working together. Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Guts have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own-with whatever guts you can muster.

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

I am writing to make sure that kids don't lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes I think parents emphasise more on doing well in school, which is important, but perhaps that sometimes comes at the cost of a child's natural curiosity.

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount?

Moi qui pour mon malheur ai toujours eu une curiosité passionnée pour les choses de l'esprit...

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He has no defined destination. All roads are open to his "pensée vagabonde".

Where are you flying off to?' inquired Viola, rather sulkily; few sights are more annoying when we feel lazy than that of somebody bounding upstairs.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

Sometimes simplicity brings you curiosity.

Don't conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!

I wonder' is the true work of the entrepreneurial personality." She tried to

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

For people to learn, they need to want to learn.

A writer's mind must never be closed. It's his duty to be curious and my duty to feed the curiosity. Think of it as the start of a big adventure.

That is the problem with you whites. You always want to know everything. We just experience it.

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

Once he inserted a bodkin – a long needle of the sort used for sewing leather – into his eye socket and rubbed it around 'betwixt my eye and the bone4 as near to [the] backside of my eye as I could' just to see what would happen. What happened, miraculously, was nothing – at least, nothing lasting.