Quotes About Inquisitiveness

Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

Follow your curiosity, wherever you can find

We equate being smart and being driven as the ways to get ahead. But sometimes, an attitude of alert watchfulness is far wiser and more effective. Learning to follow your nose, pulling on threads of curiosity or interest, may take you places that being driven will never lead you to.

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

It is never wrong to be curious. But it can sometimes be dangerous.

ignore all of that doubt-inducing information and be driven by curiosity and passion.

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.

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

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

Obviously, working at Google wasn't a mistake. I used to just walk around. I don't know if I was supposed to, but I'd just open doors and see what people were doing.

I've been sent somebody's heart in a jar. At that point, you're thinking, I'm not sure if I should be opening this!

Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?

The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs...

He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Do you want to feel young again? Learn something new. Being a student makes your mind fresh and curious like a little kid again.

"Curiosity killed the cat."

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

but often it is best to plead ignorance. That way you are more likely to learn secrets that might otherwise have been denied you.

Like any good optimist, I don't expect the worst to happen. Only, like any optimist worth his salt, I like to go and look as soon as possible afterward jest in case it did.