Quotes About Inquisitiveness

The undemanding reader asks no questions-and gets no answers.

People who have no life always have to stick their nose in the life of others

I took an axe To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf As he slept.

A stranger in a small community is always an object of keen interest and he had seen more than one curtain twitch as he passed by.

who'd found a whole bed of mice.

Jaki? dystyngowany l?k, ?e swymi pytaniami sprowokowa? zbyt wielk? poufa?o?? i dowie si? czego?, co go nic nie obchodzi, krzy?owa?a si? w nim z ju? rozbudzon? ciekawo?ci? i uwag?, z pragnieniem, by si? z tych ust dowiedzie? czego? wi?cej.

I want to live a lot of different lives, not just one. I wish I could have lived forever, in every age and every country, seen everything and done everything and felt everything." p. 193

It excited my curiosity. And I believe there is no greater sin than to leave one's curiosity unsatisfied. Curiosity is a fuel that powers the engine of human advancement.

It's okay if you don't like science," he said, "but that doesn't mean you can just ignore things you don't understand. It'll come back to haunt you.

Take a deep and boundless curiosity about things outside your own profession and comfort zone.

The great thing about knowing stuff is that anyone can do it.

to both sides before trying the handle; it moved

What I loved about this was that it illustrated that, when they are very young, kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong.

Life is the question and children are the answer.

What makes you ask that?" (...) "Why does anyone ask a question? Because I want to know the answer.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything that I can not explain as a fraud.

You can learn a lot more with a spirit of wonder and enjoyment than you can with an attitude of criticism. Make

You make a habit of talking to statues?" "Yes. And pigeons. Now, are you going to ask?

Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

that's why we don't poke random shit we find in the woods with a stick

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.