Quotes About Inquisitiveness

Now then. Now then now then. What's all this, then?

Curiosity = Wonder + Awe

Curiosity, he says, happens when we feel a gap in our knowledge.

But I was like a bird caught in a snare. Only, the wires of this snare were made of curiosity and a disobedient heart.

Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.

Well, you're not exactly effervescent now, are you?" Vivian says. "But I saw you outside earlier when Jack dropped you off, and your face was"—Vivian lifts her knobby hands, splaying her fingers—"all lit up. You were talking up a storm." "Were you spying on me?" "Of course! How else am I going to find out anything about you?

I know one fortunate little boy whose parents told him the facts of life so satisfactorily, he said in the next breath, "Now tell me how they make peanut butter."),

For when a man is once in a book-shop curiosity seizes him to look here and there.

For, the wise G. K. Chesterton observed, "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

As I get older, I have a very strong urge to know about stuff. I want to learn the names of trees and birds; that's the sort of knowledge I want to pass on to my son.

I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.

Said by Maltcassion the Dragon: Humans, he scoffed. Always so inquiring about stuff. Never satisfied with the status quo. It will be your downfall, but oddly enough, it´s also one of your more endearing features. Do we have any otheres? Oy yes, plenty.

I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find our who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it.

I asked my mother why we couldn't have books and she said, 'The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.' I thought to myself, 'Too late for what?

she loved exploring every nook and cranny

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

You try to ask the best questions possible, but you don't necessarily control the outcome.

More often than not, wisdom is at the mercy of curiosity.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

How did you know they were there?" Glory asked. "Oh wait, I forgot, NightWings are all-knowing, all-seeing and all-brilliant, right?" "Don't forget al-wonderful and all-brilliant.

That's what I'd like to know," she said.

For most of her life, Cricket's best friends were books. Books accepted you the way you were and shared all their secrets with you. Books never told you to stop asking questions or accused you of being nosy and annoying. Books never said, "Cricket, you don't need to know that, mind your own business.