Inquisitive Quotes
61 quotes by 58 authors
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My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
— Alvin Adams
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow…
— Frank Moore Colby
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to…
— Horace
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The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
— Howard Carter
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A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey…
— H E Bates
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I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do…
— Joshua Reynolds
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What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.
— Bertrand Russell
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There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
— Frank A. Clark
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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered…
— Francis Bacon
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this…
— Samuel Johnson
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The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws.
— Alexander Hamilton
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something…
— Edith Hamilton
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I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back,…
— Craig Johnston
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I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
— Albert Einstein
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I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all…
— Chris Colfer
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always…
— E. M. Forster
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Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks…
— Ketzel Levine
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Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth…
— Mark Bauerlein
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