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Quotes About Inquisitiveness

And Hislop?' said Lymond softly. 'Don't sound so aggrieved. There are no rewards, celestial or mundane, for the best display of pure, bloody inquisitiveness.' Which drove Ludovic d'Harcourt to a deduction, five minutes later, as Daniel Hislop marched into his room. 'Let me make a guess. He is awake.' 'He's awake. The honeymoon,' said Danny, 'is over.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -- not too strenuous, not too sedentary; trains and invigorates the mind.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
El aburrimiento se cura con curiosidad. La curiosidad no se cura con nada.
~ Dorothy Parker
Lekiem na nud? jest ciekawo??. Na ciekawo?? nie ma leku.
~ Dorothy Parker
La cura para el aburrimiento es la curiosidad. Para la curiosidad no existe cura.
~ Dorothy Parker
What's up? [asked Ford.] I don't know, said Marvin, I've never been there.
~ Douglas Adams
But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
~ Douglas Adams
scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
~ Douglas Adams
A scientist must be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
~ Douglas Adams
What's up? I don't know, said Marvin. I've never been there.
~ Douglas Adams
a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
~ Douglas Adams
Quello che lo irritava di più era il fatto che la gente era solita chiedergli sempre per quale ragione era così irritato.
~ Douglas Adams
And what was he like? Did he have three heads?" "If he did, two must have been successfully removed in infancy.
~ Douglas Preston
Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity.
~ Agatha Christie
Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them.
~ Agatha Christie
You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.
~ Agatha Christie
As one journeys through life," said Poirot, "one finds more and more that people are often interested in things that are none of their own business. Even more so than they are in things that could be considered as their own business.
~ Agatha Christie
But I did really want to know. I mean, it's interesting, don't you think, to know all about people? What they feel and think, I mean, not just who they are and what they do.
~ Agatha Christie
Her questions came with a kind of eagerness. The thought flashed across his mind that she must be very bored.
~ Agatha Christie
Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume.
~ Alan Watt
I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.
~ Amanda de Cadenet
Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.
~ William T. Vollmann
I just want pieces of the world.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
~ Abraham Cowley