Quotes About Inquisitiveness

Everyone is fond of plucky children, kids who launch into adventures, even (within reason) kids who sass back. What about the girl who sits for a long time and watches other children going down the slide, whose legs quiver just from imagining how it will feel to stand at the top of that silver swoop into the unknown?

What is it?' said Moomintroll. Discoveries were his very favourite thing (after mysterious paths, swimming and secrets, that is).

If I want to know something, I'll go find it. I don't want to be pulled to anything.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Freedom is the first step to curiosity and knowledge. -V6

Boy, are you fuckin' those worms again?

And to learn, he must be curious and also humble. For a proud man never learns anything.

Hay muchas clases de mujeriegos. A unos los mueve la vanidad o un sentimiento de poder; a otros, la avidez. Luc actuada movido por un simple motivo: una insondable curiosidad.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

What impressed me most was how hard [Julia Child] worked, how devoted she was to the "rules" of la cuisine française while keeping herself open to creative exploration, and how determined she was to persevere in the face of setbacks. Julia never lost her sense of wonder and inquisitiveness. She was, and is, a great inspiration.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Kühner, als das Unbekannte zu erforschen, kann es sein, das Bekannte zu bezweifeln.

I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It's like a graduate course: it's terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.

I had never even heard about her until this friend said, 'Meghan Markle.' I was like, 'Right, give me a bit of background. What's going on here?' So I had never watched 'Suits.'

I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I like basketball, but please don't ask me basketball questions because I've got a lot to learn.

Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

I like to write about questions that interest me, not the conclusions I've come to.

My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else.