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Quotes About Inquisitiveness

approach these questions with a "beginner's mind" - constantly seeing the world with fresh eyes
~ Hal Gregersen
What if we brainstormed for Questions?
~ Hal Gregersen
Did I mention the gold piercing of a snake he had through the head of his penis? I'd never seen one before. I asked what you were supposed to do with it. And he said, "Start by making friends.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?"... "No." "Well, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence?
~ Heather Brewer
Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?"... "No." "Welt, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence?
~ Heather Brewer
There are some things we might not know, but that doesn't mean we should give up. We can find out what we need to know. We can find out everything
~ Lemony Snicket
It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.
~ Lemony Snicket
As I'm sure you know, whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware... I recently looked in the refrigerator of one of my enemies and learned she was a vegetarian, or at least pretending to be one, or had a vegetarian visiting her for a few days.
~ Lemony Snicket
Questions show an inquisitive mind.
~ Lemony Snicket
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
~ Leo Burnett
Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will.
~ James Stephens
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
~ James Stephens
Every novel I've written has been about finding stuff out. I'm motivated much more by curiosity than by self-expression.
~ Jane Smiley
Not to know is bad, but not to wish to know is worse.
~ Jane Yolen
Every time I turn around, Short Stuff got his nose in my business. But
~ Janet Evanovich
Unlike a lot of people, I'm not afraid of the unknown. It intrigues me.
~ Misha Green
When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.
~ Sophie Dahl
When I left my Catholic school, I was around 10 or 11 years old, and it started to unravel for me there. Kids pick up on things if you're interested and inquisitive. I was seeing things that were not in line with what I'd been taught about Jesus. It didn't jive with me.
~ Mark Ruffalo
The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.
~ Robyn Davidson
I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity
~ Nikolai Gogol
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.
~ Gordon Parks
If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.
~ I. F. Stone
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
~ Seneca the Younger
Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
~ Thom Yorke