Quotes About Inquisitive Minds

#1. A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision.

Edward Gibbon

#2. Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

John C. Maxwell

#3. For experiences and information to be integrated into our lives as true awareness, they have to be received with open hands, inquisitive minds, and wondering hearts.

Brene Brown

#4. 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 be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.

Thomas S. Buechner

#6. What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

Clare Boothe Luce

#7. The purpose of education is turn inquisitive young minds into rule-followers

U.S. Dept. Of Fear

#8. Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

Francis Picabia

#9. If you have newspapers dating to the last millennium, magazines from the Seventies stacked on your nightstand, and countless envelopes filled with family photos stuffed in a drawer, you may be carrying procrastination to an extreme.

Marilyn Sokol

#10. There is a skull in every man, and I tell you there is a skull in the lives of all men. They saw it that day, those men. They saw what sometimes grins behind the smile.

Stephen King

#11. Even though it's meant to be the season of jollity and goodwill, there's something delicious about the anticipation of a Christmassy ghost thrill.

Mark Gatiss

#12. When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.

Charlotte Rampling

#13. I'll tell you one thing ... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

Adam McKay

#14. God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#15. A star is born in the teeth of the Lake Michigan wind.

Brent Musburger

#16. The grandest form of delusion is misconstruing the obvious. Persons with an open, inquisitive, and intuitive mind can detect hidden clues that aggressive, narrow-minded, and impatient rationalist fail to perceive.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#17. We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Charles Dickens

#18. As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Mike White

#19. The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

John Oates

#20. There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it."

Harvey MacKay

#21. More sheltering is rarely an antidote for too much in the first place.

Ginn Hale