M. J. Rose Quotes

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

My family called me the 'why kid' growing up. I always needed to know why something is happening, why I had to do something, why whatever.

I'm probably, like, the nosiest person you'll ever meet. Not in a rude way, but I like to be in the know.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

Since I was a child, I started to ask very difficult questions; even my family was telling me all the time, 'You're a very difficult person, and we were having trouble answering your questions. Why are you asking so many questions?'

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

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

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

I feel curious about every situation I'm in.

I'm full of curiosity.

I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

I'm very curious, I guess, as a human being.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I've been curious ever since I was a little kid.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.

In my day-to-day life, I did learn to be passionately curious from my dad and always search and have a hunger for knowledge and want to understand why things work the way they do.

Maybe I'm just like a child. I'm full of curiosity about things, and it's fine as long as it's fun at that time, yet at the same time, I hate things that are tough.