Be Curious Quotes

#1. Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Stella Gibbons

#2. You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

Ivar Giaever

#3. It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

Anthony Daniels

#4. Something out of childhood whistles through this space, a sense of games and half-made selves, but it's not that you're pretending to be someone else. You're pretending to be exactly who you are. That's the curious thing.

Don DeLillo

#5. It is the daily task of the creative to be curious and collect dots. The most creative people I know fill their brains, their idea factories, with as much raw material as they can. They have voracious appetites.

David DuChemin

#6. If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

Eric Schmidt

#7. If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

John Connolly

#8. The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.

James Altucher

#9. Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

Ian Leslie

#10. Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!

Betty White

#11. Inaction quickly consumes a lifetime. Be curious, be bold, pay close attention to the world in front of you. And start trying stuff.

Ben Falk

#12. I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.

Stuart Townsend

#13. Some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn't Curious George Uses the Potty.

William Goldman

#14. Every day is an opportunity to learn something or discover something or someplace. Be curious, play, go out on a limb, walk a different way to work, try a new food at dinner and keep learning and growing.

Sandra Magsamen

#15. I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.

Jael McHenry

#16. To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I'm afraid that nothing surprises me any more.

Sian Busby

#17. To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Isaac Asimov

#18. It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

Amy Grant

#19. Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Aimee Mullins

#20. I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back ... it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.

Liza Minnelli

#21. For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

Blaise Pascal

#22. I kind of wanted to tell them that. Like, it's okay, I know I'm weird-looking, take a look, I don't bite. Hey, the truth is, if a Wookiee started going to the school all of a sudden, I'd be curious, I'd probably stare a bit!

R.J. Palacio

#23. Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

Lemony Snicket

#24. Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

Gordon Gee

#25. Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.

Stephen Hawking

#26. Mathematics has always shown a curious ability to be applicable to nature, and this may express a deep link between our minds and nature. We are the Universe speaking out, a part of nature. So it is not so surprising that our systems of logic and mathematics sing in tune with nature.

George Zebrowski

#27. Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except ... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.

Floyd Dell

#28. One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form.

Gregory Allen Howard

#29. Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.

Oscar De La Renta

#30. Yes, I have heard something curious on that score sir, how that a dismasted man never entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will still be pricking him at time.

Herman Melville

#31. Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.

Iggy Pop

#32. It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.

John Dos Passos

#33. Be infinitely curious and creative for the world is infinitely vast and beautiful.

Kota Yamada

#34. It is curious how believable I can be when I criticize myself, how unconvincing when I give myself praise.

Marion Dane Bauer

#35. Your reaction makes me deliciously curious. Will you be kept awake tonight wondering if I knew it was you? Imagining yourself under me?"
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance

Madison Thorne Grey

#36. We're all naturally curious when we're eight years old. But as most people get older, they become less and less curious, so they ask other people to be curious for them. That's what I do for a living.

Ron Miriello

#37. I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

Dinaw Mengestu

#38. Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...

Vicki Baum

#39. I am a better writer for having fewer demons, and I am more curious about the world and the people in it. So those of you thinking you might need your demons in order to be creative: I beg to differ.

Rick Moody

#40. I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

George Harrison

#41. My life has taught me to be more curious than afraid.

Ishi

#42. You ought to be curious and daring.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. She gave life a meaning.
She was art, dressed like a painters pallet, bright and unaware of how goddam beautiful she could be turned into; with the right touch, her smile was the brush and her story was the canvas.

Nikki Rowe

#44. Who keeps you safe from the Amyr? The singers? The Sithe? From all that would harm you in the world? Haliax asked with calm politeness, as if genuinely curious as to what the answer might be.

Patrick Rothfuss

#45. I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

Katie Couric

#46. I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

Robert De Niro

#47. It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.

Stephen Hawking

#48. Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.

Terry Pratchett

#49. I was curious, given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years - not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol ... there's really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.

Ozzy Osbourne

#50. I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

Martha Stewart

#51. To be "interest-ing" is to be curious and attentive, and to practice "the continual projection of interest." To put it more simply: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested.

Austin Kleon

#52. My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping a whole new kind of blood into your veins. This is what it is to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.

Carrie Brownstein

#53. Life is like a game - we should be curious to play it - you explore and learn and grow - that is what it is for - that and having fun. It all expands consciousness- your own, the collective, and the cosmic.

Jay Woodman

#54. I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

Anton Chekhov

#55. I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

Deborah Norville

#56. To be wise is to be eternally curious.

Frederick Buechner

#57. He wanted to instill that sociability in his son; he believed that being curious about people was one of the few crucial life skills that could be fully nurtured in a place like East Orange.

Jeff Hobbs

#58. William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of the time he didn't say much. But when he was curious about something, he was stubborner than a bear after a honeycomb.

Patricia C. Wrede

#59. You need to be curious one way or another as a designer. Your eye has to stay curious. I look at people and think about how they live. I think about bodies.

Michael Kors

#60. If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.

Jenson Button

#61. Eloquent and moving ... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life.

Mira Bartok

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

John Hutchinson

#63. Kell looked her in the eyes. "You will be trapped there," he said. "When it is over."
Lila shivered. "Perhaps," she said, "or perhaps I will go with you to the end of the world. After all, you've made me curious.

V.E Schwab

#64. I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be.

Douglas Coupland

#65. It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music.

Oliver Sacks

#66. I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

Robin Weigert

#67. Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.

Carolyn Haywood

#68. Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who say that the man who won't look you in the eye is not to be trusted! As if mere brazenness were a sign of honesty; really, the theory of decency is the most amusing thing in the world.

John Kendrick Bangs

#69. It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

Rachel Carson

#70. It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

Lemony Snicket

#71. Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

Aaron Swartz

#72. I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

Dean Koontz

#73. All at once I began dreading to look at them as they passed. I saw the close moonlit space where they would surge by, and had curious thoughts about the irredeemable pollution of that space. They would perhaps be the worst of all Innsmouth types--something one would not care to remember. The

H.P. Lovecraft

#74. Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.

Pema Chodron

#75. I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself - -it's eerie.

Christy Turlington

#76. I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

Pat Conroy

#77. People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

Barack Obama

#78. It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort

Katharine Kolcaba

#79. Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.

John Kuypers

#80. Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Man Ray

#81. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three, 33, an important number: the date of his 'coming of age'.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#82. People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

Tom Kundig

#83. When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#84. Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpected elephants.

Lloyd Alexander

#85. Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

Maria Popova

#86. Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.

James Collins

#87. I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

Jerry Yang

#88. I wanted characters I could believe in, and I wanted to be made curious about what was to happen to them. Generally, I preferred people to be falling in and out of love, but I didn't mind so much if they tried their hand at something else.

Ian McEwan

#89. It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

Zora Neale Hurston

#90. Ask questions. Stay curious. It's much more important to stay interested than to be interesting.

Jane Fonda

#91. The expression 'Those who can't do, teach' is a curious one, because if you look at the world , you'll see that teachers aren't particularly worse at doing things than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as 'nobody can do anything

Lemony Snicket

#92. But if I were given a choice - of all centuries - I'd select last the curse of being born in this one. And perhaps, if I weren't curious, I'd choose never to be born at all.

Ayn Rand

#93. He was a man of whom nearly everybody was a little afraid. Why this last was so can hardly be stated in definite words. There was a feeling, perhaps, that he knew a little too much about everybody. And there was a feeling, too, that his sense of humor was a curious one.

Agatha Christie

#94. I'm tolerant of believers, but I'm agnostic. I'm curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained.

Cecile De France

#95. The curiousity and to be interested in something makes you genius.

(Robin Sharma said this once, in other words which will mean that to be genius or clever you must be curious to learn!)

Deyth Banger

#96. You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change.

Debasish Mridha

#97. 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

#98. I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and how people came to be who they are ... and who they might yet be. I am enchanted by the landscape of possibility.

Jay Neugeboren

#99. One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed ...

Edgar Dale

#100. I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Audre Lorde