Quotes About Inquisitiveness

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the desire to explore the unfamiliar. They are drawn toward what they don't understand.

Unless you have a hundred unanswered questions in your mind you haven't read enough...

Curiosity is the cornerstone of effective discipline. Before

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

I wonder why I seem to be more curious about you than you are about yourself?

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery."

Until proven innocent, I regard all "gardenias" as I do footprints of the Snowman, engines that run on vacuum energy, or good wines from Savoie.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.

Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions.

Teach your inner child to check things out. Give him permission to ask lots of questions.

The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it, and turn it inside out.

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

If children have interest, then Education happens

I always wonder who people are when I meet them; where they live, how they get home from work and little things like that.

I have never, ever been embarrassed by saying, 'I don't know.' I think maybe that's part of that longevity of my career. Sometimes I have to say, 'I don't know but I'll find out. Call me next week.'

How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body?

Vernon liked to hang around outside the house, waiting for garbagemen, telephone repairmen, the mail carrier, the afternoon news-boy. Someone to talk to about techniques and procedures. Sets of special methods. Routes, time spans, equipment. It tightened his grip on things, learning how work was done in areas outside his range.

Stage 1: Curiosity

Curiosity Is a Snap Judgment

Curiosity Isn't Enough

I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and what music they listened to, wanted to look under their beds and in their secret drawers and night tables and inside the pockets of their coats.