Quotes About Curiosity

Every clarification breeds new questions.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

With the discovery of the Higgs boson, one of the questions has been ticked off the list, but there are many others. We hope that we can find answers or hints for answers to at least some of them. But of course, this is in the hands of nature.

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we're excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.

The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

If you ask the right questions, you learn a lot about people.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.