Inquisitiveness Quotes

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties. He who easily comprehends all that is before him, and soon exhausts any single subject, is always eager for new inquiries; and in proportion as the intellectual eye takes in a wider prospect, it must be gratified with variety, by more rapid flights and bolder excursions.

Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.

It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and fighting with the children. It's part of my curiosity for life.

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.

Question everything!

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for themselves an idea of the world in which they live. But we alone question our surroundings.

Ideas come from curiosity.

Wonder is the first of all the passions.

Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.

My father was a rather active guy, and he was often engaged in something if not physically, then mentally.

I've got a young mind.

It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

I am pretty much a nerd, and I love to read.