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Quotes about Inquisitive

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
- Os Guinness
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
- St. Augustine
It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.
- Charles Dickens
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why
- William Hazlitt
I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything!
- Stellan Skarsgard
Human beings are curious, and especially curious about other human beings.
- Mortimer Adler
Try to learn something about everything.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
My mom cautioned me not to become a gossip! I was always up in people's business. People told me stuff... even when I didn't ask and I channeled my story gathering and good sources into a hunger for the news.
- Harris Faulkner
They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
- Joseph Heller
For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are often used in tandem. Curiosity fidgets, is hard to satisfy, looks for answers even before forming questions.
- Maya Angelou
To be wise is to be eternally curious.
- Frederick Buechner
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
- Walt Disney