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Quotes About Inquisitiveness

What was surprising, though, was discovering what Starflight got up to when he was bored. "Hey,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
What was surprising, though, was discovering what Starflight got up to when he was bored.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I will find out." Violet said. "I am excellent at thing-finding-out." "But won't you get in trouble?" Ivy asked anxiously. "My parents yell at me when I try to find things out." "Then I will yell BACK," said Daffodil. That is what I am excellent at.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Only then did he understand that he really wanted to know nothing about El Ga'a beyond the fact that it was isolated and unfrequented, that it was precisely those things he had been trying to ascertain about it.
~ Paul Bowles
Nobody knows something about everything.
~ Paul Levine
Fascinated to know more, I joined them at breakfast
~ Paul Theroux
A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiviness is bitter or sweet.
~ Pema Chodron
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
~ Pema Chodron
It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are—or who anyone else is either.
~ Pema Chodron
egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are, or who anyone else is, either. Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh. For a warrior-in-training, egolessness is a cause of joy rather than a cause of fear.
~ Pema Chodron
A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet.
~ Pema Chodron
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are, or who anyone else is, either. Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
~ Pema Chodron
As long as we don't want to be honest and kind with ourselves, then we are always going to be infants. When we begin just to try to accept ourselves, the ancient burden of self-importance lightens up considerably. Finally there's room for genuine inquisitiveness, and we find we have an appetite for what's out there.
~ Pema Chodron
The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.
~ Pema Chodron
The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether has to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.
~ Pema Chodron
egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness
~ Pema Chodron
Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.
~ Rolf Potts
When you begin to thirst for knowledge, you drink it in. You need not go out for it, nor away. The ocean of it surrounds us as the atmosphere.
~ Unknown
Why shouldn't your curiosity about the world be rewarded?
~ Dave Eggers
She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, Where did you come from? How did you get here? And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.
~ David Almond
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish
~ David Foster Wallace
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
~ David Foster Wallace
Look down your shirt and spell attic.
~ David Foster Wallace
hamsters being notorious draggers and rearrangers of stuff they can't eat but feel compelled to fuck with anyway, somehow—and
~ David Foster Wallace