Top 100 Be Curious Quotes
#1. You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
Ivar Giaever
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
Isaac Asimov
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#16. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.
Anton Chekhov
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
Aaron Swartz
#26. Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
Pema Chodron
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.
Maria Popova
#30. 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
#31. You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Spring massive changes on it and it will run back to its comfortable routines. But introduce changes gently and in small doses and it just might be curious (not scared) to explore them more.
Anonymous
#33. The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas, who are trying to disrupt the status quo, and usher in a better way. We need to think out of the box, and be curious, and be willing to take risks.
Steve Case
#34. We live in an age where people are kind of a bit obsessed with celebrity and stuff. You can't help but be curious about it.
Jarvis Cocker
#35. Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#36. All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware.
Wayne Coyne
#37. We were meat to be bought and sold. Speaking Arabic made me a curious and unusual product. I didn't want to be special. I didn't want them to be curious about me.
Richard Engel
#40. Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional.
Stephen Gillett
#41. The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.
Sloane Crosley
#42. Emotions are not good, bad, right, or wrong. The first step to changing our relationship to feelings is to be curious about them and the messages they send to us.
Lane Pederson
#43. If you find a problem, don't complain about it. To find the solution, be curious and wise.
Debasish Mridha
#44. In order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first century and beyond, we must nurture rather than repress children's natural curiosity. We must encourage them to be curious, instead of fearful, toward other cultures.
Paul K. Chappell
#45. I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
Randeep Hooda
#46. Always be curious and ask questions"
"Always find the answers to questions"
"Never take anything for granted"
In the matter where NoBody becomes SomeBody and SomeBody becomes NoBody; and wherein some matters matter
Cge
#47. In truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.
Walter Lippmann
#48. If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you're curious, nothing is a chore; it's automatic - you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.
Tony Robbins
#49. I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to pick up the poem again; I want to be curious about its byways and secret corners.
James Arthur
#51. Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. These intuitive powers were given to your soul at birth.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#52. And it is unstructured play that provides the greatest opportunities for kids to be curious, creative, spontaneous, and collaborative.
Madeline Levine
#53. Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.
John Bytheway
#54. There is nothing sexual about my interest in other women's breasts. But it's difficult not be curious when you have next to none of your own.
Victoria Clayton
#55. It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.
Honore De Balzac
#56. It's good to be curious about many things.
Fred Rogers
#57. I still think you people need to be curious [in order to absorb the culture]. You need to search Uzbekistani pop music.
Ayshay
#58. Now, why should the universe be constructed in such a way that atoms acquire the ability to be curious about themselves? That, surely, is one of the great unexplained puzzles of science.
Marcus Chown
#59. Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too.
Rose McGowan
#60. Stephen Hawking Quotes
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.
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
#62. Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.
Teresa Of Avila
#63. We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.
Simon Sinek
#64. Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty.
Brene Brown
#65. Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.
Darryl Pinckney
#66. Five rules to follow to be a great leader:
1. Be curious.
2. Serve others.
3. Be purpose oriented.
4. Be adaptive.
5. Be positive.
Debasish Mridha
#67. Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious. That's probably my biggest piece of advice.
Jill Douglas
#68. I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.
Ben Stiller
#69. It is not against nature to be curious: it is our nature to be so.
Carlo Rovelli
#70. The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.
T. S. Eliot
#71. 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.
Stephen Hawking
#72. It is normal to be curious. The only shame is if all the musts and shoulds drown out the wants that we hear inside ourselves.
Madeline Hunter
#73. To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness. Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degress of experience - to immerse without judgment. It's like a really fearless step forward into new experience. There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.
Carrie Brownstein
#74. The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
William Faulkner
#75. To live a wonderful life, be curious and impregnate your thoughts with kindness, compassion, and pure love.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction.
Matt Haig
#77. There's so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have learned. And am still learning.
Carew Papritz
#78. I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say "nihilism?" You'd be curious. What's underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken?
Eugene Mirman
#79. Never be curious. It is the path to perdition.
Peter Ackroyd
#80. Some things it don't pay to be curious about.
Stephen King
#81. And yet, even so, there is a way to find happiness. That is to be curious about all of the interlocking events that add up to our lives. To notice connections. To be amused or perhaps frightened by the ways things work out. If the universe is indifferent, what a consolation that we are not.
Roger Ebert
#82. LIFE'S work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
Pema Chodron
#83. Be aware. Be Curious. Be Clever. Innovation is Something to be Reckoned with.
Daniel C. Tomas
#84. Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else
that's how you'll get ahead.
Austin Kleon
#86. A lot of these roles that I feel like I've had some sort of impact, or that have had an effect on me, have always been with directors who have the time to somehow get to know me. Any good director's going to be curious about who it is that's coming aboard.
Elias Koteas
#87. I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women
you know
long-suffering, dutiful
but all right in the end
a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.
Peter Greenaway
#88. Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.
Claire Tomalin
#89. Instead, that possessive side of him, the one that recognized Tate as his match, his equal in all ways he ever could have imagined, stirred to life, as he acknowledged the possibility of being bound to this man forever, in every way he could be. Curious
Ella Frank
#90. All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.
Jean Rhys
#92. I've always loved science, as far back as I can remember. I was very, very curious about how everything worked: the world, the physical universe, chemistry, law. So it was only natural to be curious about how our mind works.
Leonard Mlodinow
#93. This is the only badge of true friendship I'm sure of: not to be curious.
Richard Ford
#94. Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.
Jochen Zeitz
#95. We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.
Barry Diller
#96. It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
Beatrice Webb
#97. Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
Elizabeth Lesser
#98. At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
Virginia Postrel
#100. It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.
Luci Swindoll
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