Why people always ask and want to know?

Question

Like, you, me, and other people in the world...

Answer 1

like others have said before its in the nature of being human , to be inquisitive is also natural for animals but do they have a Q and A no i don't think so , so there , I have managed to ask a question in the midst of answering yours, and here's another why does the spell checker on YA not work all the time, its very frustrating, got to go off to work now bye. and thanks.

Answer 2

to be human is to be curious, lose your curiosity - lose a part of your humanity

Answer 3

just like that. curiosity

Answer 4

Human nature, fulfilling their needs. Its fun.

Answer 5

CURIOSITY!!!

Woldn`t the world be boring if there was none?!

Curios people are more interesting themselves!

Answer 6

Because we know when we're without something. In this situation; knowledge.

Answer 7

Curiosity - risky, but interesting. It is helpful, especially with rhetorical questions to get other peoples view on subjects, as a means of developing your own view of things.

Answer 8

To know more is better than to be ignorant. Knowledge and skills give us more peace of mind and help us to survive better in this Info Age.

Answer 9

hypocrisy is a funny thing.

Answer 10

Because we are too stupid to know the answers.

Aristotle was a student of Plato, Plato was a

student of Socrates.   Let's learn about our philosophers people, before we discuss them, shall we?

Answer 11

Huh?

Answer 12

Because asking questions can lead to knowledge and knowledge, in one way or another, can lead to happiness which is the aim in life.  We may have different levels of need for knowlege but it is natural to learn - whether the need is in learning about food, discovering new ways to manipulate DNA or how best to worship God.  Still, it is good to ask questions that lead to knowledge because in some way or another, it leads to the ultimate good.

According to Aristotle, learning (which can occur by asking questions) is good - as it is the function or purpose of a human being.  You can achieve the most happiness by doing what you were meant to do - using reason.  And happiness is the greatest of goods says Aristotle.

(Aristotle was a student of Socrates who is famous for the Socratic method.  The Socratic Method involved asking a student lots of questions to stimulate thinking and learning.  Aristotle would say thats good since our function in life is to reason.)

Note that Aristotle also believed in moderation, which can mean that it can be possible to learn too much.  What is a moderate and good ammount of learning for one person may not be right for another person.  We mightn't all need to learn the same things (or ask the same questions), too.

Personally I think his argument makes a lot of sense.  Aristotle was a great thinker and considered by many to be one of the most influential philosophers ever.  

Here are some quotes:

"We are not studying in order to know what virtue is, but to become good, for otherwise there would be no profit in it." -Aristotle

"What is the highest good in all matters of action? As to the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living." -Aristotle

Answer 13

Just because, they want to know the opinions of others

Answer 14

They lead frustrating lives and they are jealous of us, obviously.

Answer 15

This is because people always feel that they have capacity to know more than what they have already known, to have more than what they already have, to go to places where they have never gone before, to be more than they have always been. The people who ask questions and want to know are the people who believe that they can know at the first place. They believe that there is something to know, something interesting, life and mind enhancing, something useful and worthy of knowing.

There immense power in the knowledge of ignorance. The power that is far greater than one ever may imagine. I for one have to resist my natural urges to know, if I see that there is something that I can know. And before I ever ask a single question, I spend a great deal of time wondering about things, about their nature, about their reality and their purpose. I see that I, like most people, have a very inquisitive and curious mind. I would like to know about all things that come within the field of my vision. I for instance would like to know how much I know. I am deeply interested in knowing what I have not known so far. I do not want to be left in ignorance, in the dark, to suffer in oblivion. I want to stay informed, fully aware and educated. I want to be the first to know, and then, the first to tell what I have just known.

I also see that I am also prone to speculations, to making assumptions about things that I do not know well. I think by doing this I seek to imaginatively fill the gaps in my knowledge and understanding. So natural is to the mind to know until certainty that it will not rest until it has had removed the last and least possibility of doubt.

Then as I look around I wonder about things. I wonder about the world, about the universe and about life. Many questions rush to my mind at once, but seldom do I find a definite answer to any one, so quite often I have to live with the questions. I would not have been able to keep myself together if it was all at the mercy of my inquisitively questioning mind; I would have been very frightened and worn down a being in face of what I see around me. This universe, the life and many things of my world might have had better of me if it were not for my also natural ability of having faith within, alongside my ability to harbor doubts.

I believe that my faith provides me the central that I can then move around. My faith always comes up with answers each times my doubt, or my awareness of my ignorance, form into a question. If it is natural in me to expand with my knowledge, by asking questions, then it is also natural for me to keep my faith, in its various forms, to round up my searches within certain reason and comfort of my being.

Answer 16

to grow up