Quotes About Inquisitiveness

The goal shouldn't be to make your child eat an entire set of encyclopedias by the age of six. The goal should be to encourage your child to be curious—to want to learn about the world, and explore the things that are in it.

I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon.

But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.

It's like me, I wouldn' take the good ol' gospel that was just layin' there to my hand. I got to be pickin' at it until I got it all tore down.

Also, I am not shy about admitting that I am an incorrigible Peeping Tom. I have never passed an unshaded window without looking in, have never closed my ears to a conversation that was none of my business. I can justify or even dignify this by protesting that in my trade I must know about people, but I suspect that I am simply curious.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Doubt is the father of invention.

As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is in it.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

lot of agility, adaptability, a natural propensity toward curiosity, an insatiable appetite for that and this and this and that!

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Couldn't inquisitiveness be called just real affection with a kind of squint in its eye?

Jake pried the head open, giving me a look when I warned him not to cut himself on the teeth. It is a look I think all children master at about his age—the one that insists the looker needs no warning while, by its very confidence, convincing the one looked at that the warning was very necessary indeed.

Good manners warred with curiosity, and lost.

Another thing to study," Natalie said, amused. "Will you ever be done?" I smiled into the sun, one hand holding my bonnet against the firm grasp of the wind. "I should hope not. How dreadfully tedious that would be.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.