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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
[Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
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 have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
One doesn't like to appear vulgarly inquisitive. But if everyone one knows has suddenly started murdering everyone else, it would be terribly nice to know about it.
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.
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.
One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
Craft is important, but cameras for their own sake are not. A sense of aesthetics, a connection with the subject matter, an enquiring and an inquisitive mind, these factors outweigh whatever equipment we use.
I don't know the capabilities of our enemies. But I found it quite easy to circumvent security at certain phone companies throughout the United States. So if an inquisitive kid can do it, why can't a cyberterrorist do it?
"I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes."
"I'm inquisitive ... and I love a new challenge... and if I feel that we can do it better than it's been done by other people, we'll have a go."
The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.
Most of the students whom I have lectured were inquisitive to learn and contribute towards my vision. So, the youth who want to achieve in life can do a lot for society.
The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.
I grew up in Omaha and Milwaukee, and was always a very inquisitive kid.
Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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.
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.
Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.
Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.
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 them.
I think most young professionals would be surprised to learn how accommodating employers can be to inquisitive potential candidates.
I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?
I'm a star player when it comes to being sociable. It's because I'm inquisitive. When I meet someone for the first time, I want to start up a conversation with them.
The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.
Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.
I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works.
But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
People should mind their own business. This particularly applies to those who are inquisitive, and those who jump to conclusions.
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.
A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead.
The student must have a very humble state of mind and also must be very inquisitive.
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.
Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
I'm very inquisitive. I love hanging around people who can teach me. I ask a lot of questions. And I'm very introspective and self-critical.
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 on the part of its owner.
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.
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 culture.
I have a very inquisitive mind, and I like to know. Like, if somebody uses a term and I don't understand, I always look it up.
Al [Michaels] is inquisitive, knowledgeable, and incredibly well-prepared. I don't know what his IQ is, but it's probably only a couple of points lower than mine.
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
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.
Hell was made for the inquisitive.
Knowledge is just how I am. I like to know things. I'm an inquisitive human being.
So are the early unions of an unfixed Marriage: watchful and observant, jealous and busy, inquisitive and careful, and apt to take alarm at every unkind word. For infirmities do not manifest themselves in the first Scenes, but in the succession of a long Society.
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have in your hands a story that is inquisitive, gripping, and triumphant.
