Quotes About Inquisitiveness

The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.

I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

Anything interesting?" Joe asked.

There's a little of Dirk Pitt in all of us.

The only prescription for me is to have a thousand interests.

Non può esservi alcuna sottomissione – perché il fatto stesso che parliamo di questi argomenti indica che vi è curiosità, e la curiosità è insubordinazione nella forma più pura.

Some men might ha' told the police about it—but I never cared much for them. They're like kids in a way, always asking questions—most of which you can't answer.

The world was out there waiting to be explored—and not just waiting, but wanting to be explored. So why in heaven's name shouldn't I investigate every nook and cranny?

Ik heb het ongelukkige karakter van iemand die altijd achter de volgende heuvel wil kijken, en die nog steeds niet geleerd heeft dat daarachter weer een andere heuvel ligt.

Quoter's curiosity is a disease whose only cure is more reading.

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

As some of our more uncouth agents are prone to say, we want to know how many times he wipes his ass when he shits.

To flourish in this turbulent and tricky world, a strong, agile, curious mind is an essential.

If you ask a question, you can't stop there. You must keep going. You can't stop there: World will wave; will be facetious, angry. You can't stop there. You have to keep on going.

Gently I pointed out that it should be "sheep," and though he was so tired that he could hardly keep his eyes open, he launched into an interrogation as to why the singular should be the same as the plural and wanted to know all the other English words which had this peculiarity.

Assume nothing, question everything.

Are you getting bored yet?)

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

Stop working so hard at being interesting and focus on what's outside yourself. There are universes out there that need to be explored. And, an interested person is extremely interesting.

Don't let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.

Also I wanted to be an explorer when I was a kid. That was my first idea of what would be a really great thing to do in the world: to discover unknown things and pick around in them and see what you could bring back home to go, 'Look! The world is bigger than you thought it was.'

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

When I was a little boy, I was fascinated with how women looked and carried themselves.