
Top 31 Best Curiosity Quotes
#1. I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.
Lauren DeStefano
#2. The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
Sylvia Earle
#3. What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.
Julian Barnes
#4. It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
Sophia Loren
#5. Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again - lots of them.
Hal B. Gregersen
#6. Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish
to just ask the question.
Melissa Senate
#7. It is best to have a strong curiosity, weak affiliations.
E.B. White
#8. So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
Roberto Bolano
#9. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions
Lauren DeStefano
#10. You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
Ken Robinson
#11. To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'
Iris Apfel
#12. For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
Sara Sheridan
#13. I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.
Clarence Birdseye
#14. As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.
Rebecca Mead
#16. In the end, daughter of pandora that I am, my curiosity got the best of me. I wish it hadn't.
Stephen King
#17. I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.
Michael D. Higgins
#18. Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the noblest work of God.
Mark Twain
#19. My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.
David Hurn
#20. If you are thinking of nything with dependence upon it, there is a motive of curiosity, or pleasure, or success, and though the thinking will help towards satisfaction you will still be in bondage. There is no harm in this, but the higher samadhi, without such motives, is best.
Ernest Wood
#21. All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
Geoff Dyer
#22. I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
Oscar Wilde
#23. The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis
Philip Zaleski
#24. Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug
#25. I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.
Michael J. Fox
#26. Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Michael Korda
#27. The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.
Pema Chodron
#28. From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.
George Lucas
#29. And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.
Robertson Davies
#30. If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.
Satya Nadella
#31. He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity about other people that he had the ability to make everyone around him feel smart and well-read.
Will Schwalbe
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