Top 1200 Inquisitive Minds Quotes & Sayings

The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

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.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

I think most young professionals would be surprised to learn how accommodating employers can be to inquisitive potential candidates.

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

The Vimalakirti Sutra states that, when one seeks the Buddhas' emancipation in the minds of ordinary beings, one finds that ordinary beings are the entities of enlightenment, and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana. It also states that, if the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

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.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

If the world is saved, it will not be by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all. Why not new minds with new programs? Because where you find people working on programs, you don't find new minds, you find old ones. Programs and old minds go together like buggy whips and buggies.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

These Utopian idealists like the Clintons who think they really do have the answers. They think they're following the best minds of their generation, but they're not the best minds. They don't realize that they may be the worst minds of their generation.

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.

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

If Uber wants to catch up to Google and be the leader in autonomy, we have to have the best minds. We have to have all the great minds.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.

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.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

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 into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

Knowledge is just how I am. I like to know things. I'm an inquisitive human being.

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!

No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

It's hard to win people's minds over. The only way to change their minds is to perform.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

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.

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

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.

I grew up in Omaha and Milwaukee, and was always a very inquisitive kid.

I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.