Clarence Day Quotes

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

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.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

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.

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.

A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.

I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.

I grew up curious, and I always wanted to learn about different things.

My father is someone who asks doubts, thereby triggering new thoughts.

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

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

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.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

If people were really trying to learn a lot and determine what is true, the would listen a lot and talk a little.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.

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

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

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.