Elaine Dundy Quotes

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

I'm very curious, I guess, as a human being.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

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.

I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

I tend to ask more questions than I should as an actor.

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

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.

I am a naturally curious person. -Tris

Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

When I ask questions I'm genuinely curious and trying to learn.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.

A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.