A Curious Mind Quotes

#1. For a curious mind world's explanation is never enough

Sipendr

#2. A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Belief is a shelter, a prison for a curious mind.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of steel; they just provide themselves with more options, and those options come from a curious mind.

Chip Conley

#5. What is a bookshelf other than a treasure chest for a curious mind...

Unknown

#6. A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

M.J. Rose

#7. A curious mind is never bored.

Min Kim

#8. At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

Chip Conley

#9. A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.

Pearl Zhu

#10. The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#11. A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

Mary Oliver

#12. [in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time ... I possess a power of magic ... [to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind ...

Anais Nin

#13. Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.

John Steinbeck

#14. A knowledgeable curious mind is the bridging ground for ideas.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered

Tom Peters

#16. I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Alan Davies

#17. The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of
bondage
to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its
relations with nature
is tenfold more difficult than the
cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a
thousandfold more precious.

Gardner Murphy

#18. I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. I had, of course, sworn never to let the place cross my mind again; but human beings can't help being curious, I suppose, as long as the knowledge doesn't come at too high a price.

Tana French

#20. It is curious that this man who, even in my childhood, made such an impression upon me, who had such a crucial influence on the whole bent of my mind, and who perhaps has even cast his shadow over the whole of my future, still remains, even now, a complete enigma to me in many respects.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. By a curious perversity, the human mind refuses to behave itself on the occasions when it should be intensely dramatic. It was so now; the climber suddenly forgot his fears in a smile. The choir had chosen this precise moment to start the Nunc Dimittis.

Whipplesnaith

#23. Benjamin Disraeli had anticipated Erewhon's fears in his novel Coningsby: "The mystery of mysteries," he wrote, "is to view machines making machines, a spectacle that fills the mind with curious and even awful speculation.

Ronald Wright

#24. Every key belongs to a lock, and every lock contains a secret. My mind churns for the truth that you hold. Why are you here? I never desired this for you, yet I am curious to know. Is this idle gaud the answer I seek, or is it merely the old memory of a dream I thought I once lived?

H.S. Crow

#25. Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society ... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

Gore Vidal

#26. The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

Lin Yutang

#27. As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#28. I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

Howard Gardner

#29. Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

Marie Corelli

#30. Watching the world walk by
in its curious shoes
pg. 61// A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#31. Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

John Hutchinson

#32. It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!

Felix Alba-Juez

#33. You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things
useful things.

Deanna Raybourn

#34. It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.

James Joyce

#35. After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.

James Boswell