Top 100 Curiosity Is Quotes
#1. Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.
Myles Horton
#2. Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.
Susan Dennard
#4. Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
Steve Pavlina
#5. Curiosity is a worthwhile virtue than certainty. While the former leads to grow, the latter muzzles your growth and results in stagnation...
Assegid Habtewold
#6. We are taught that curiosity is a thing to be feared. But our first trains came from curious minds. As did medicine, and clocks, and first kisses.
Lauren DeStefano
#7. Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.
Mason Cooley
#8. As it is with every Life experience,
from the cradle to the grave,
Curiosity, is the culprit,
and always leads the way.
D. O'Brien
#9. Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson
#10. Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It's the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.
Zander Sherman
#12. Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
Daniel Boone
#13. Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.
Dhaval Gajera
#15. Curiosity is the essence of our existence.
Gene Cernan
#16. Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?
Phyllis Bottome
#18. Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.
Victor Hugo
#19. I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.
James Ellroy
#21. Curiosity is what lets a young mind grow and keeps an old mind young.
Kelley Armstrong
#22. Curiosity is my great vice. I fear you have seen through to the heart of me, and now seek to exploit my weakness
George R R Martin
#23. Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan
#24. Curiosity is an effective way to disruptive thinking and innovation for us.
Megan Coulter
#25. Curiosity is what keeps you working steadily, while hotter emotions may come and go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#26. I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.
Andie MacDowell
#27. Curiosity is a restless propensity and often does but hurry us forward the more irresistably, the greater is the danger that attends its indulgence.
Lennard J. Davis
#29. Why is it," he asked vaguely, "that I think you are quite a decent fellow? Why do I positively like you, Gregory?" He paused a moment, and then added with a sort of fresh curiosity, "Is it
because you are such an ass?
G.K. Chesterton
#30. Curiosity is the seedling for innovation, and if you can recognize it and react positively to it among your people, you can multiply innovative ideas
David Goldsmith
#31. Curiosity is called curiosity because of how curiously it can creep into people's behavior no matter what dangers are around.
Elizabeth Newton
#32. Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.
Tariq Ramadan
#34. Curiosity is the ultimate beauty of an adventurous mind.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.
Max Anders
#36. The human curiosity is as if an ant which seeks knowledge and walks over the books of science.
Toba Beta
#38. The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
Oswald Chambers
#39. Someone who conceals his curiosity, is overwhelmed with information.
Jack Vance
#40. Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.
Samuel Beckett
#42. The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#43. Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
Jeremy Taylor
#44. Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.
William Thurston
#47. Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
William Faulkner
#48. Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
Albert Einstein
#49. Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.
Victoria Schwab
#50. Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
#51. As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
David McCullough
#56. Because I'm a glutton for punishment, I guess. Or because I'm the cat curiosity is scheduled to kill in approximately six hours.
Lindsey Ouimet
#57. It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected. That
Sabahattin Ali
#58. Curiosity is thought to be a natural trait among the Fae, leading to knowledge of the world around us.
Anna Kyss
#59. Curiosity is a descending stair ... that leads to only who-knows-where.
Jasper Fforde
#60. Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.
Eraldo Banovac
#61. It may be that our cosmic curiosity ... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#62. If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.
Anuj
#63. Curiosity is what it looks like when you're in love with the world.
Mira Grant
#65. Maddy Patti and the Great Curiosity" is about an everyday hero, a youngster, who learns to live with his diabetes. Most relevant are "Tip" pages at book's end to help not only children, but also teachers and parents better understand diabetes.
Mary Bilderback Abel
#66. Curiosity is not a sin ... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity ... yes, indeed.
J.K. Rowling
#67. Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always in suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be had, in wrong, on the unthinking portion of mankind.
Charles Dickens
#69. You ask a lot of questions, don't you?"
"My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.
Cassandra Clare
#70. But curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#71. Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
Samuel Horsley
#72. Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
Saint Augustine
#75. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith
#76. Curiosity is antifragile, like an addiction, and is magnified by attempts to satisfy it - books have a secret mission and ability to multiply, as everyone who has wall-to-wall bookshelves knows well.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#77. Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.
Loren Rhoads
#78. Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.
Simon Sinek
#80. Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in
Scott Nicholson
#82. Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?' ... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.
Eugene Cernan
#83. Certainty is one of the weakest positions in life. Curiosity is one of the most powerful. Certainty prohibits learning, curiosity fuels change.
Liz Wiseman
#84. Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations.
Robert McKee
#85. Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#86. Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#88. And if that only inflames your curiosity, I say to you, a writer without curiosity is a bird without feathers.
Jeff Salyards
#89. Ask questions. Seek answers, knowing you'll never have all of them. And that's okay. Sometimes curiosity is its own reward.
Michael Holbrook
#91. Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.
Wes Fesler
#92. Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
E. M. Forster
#93. I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.
Heidi Julavits
#94. Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo
#95. Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Arnold Edinborough
#96. Sidious rejected outrage and intimidation for rankled curiosity. Is this the point where I'm expected to ask why I've been abducted?
James Luceno
#97. We might have known from the first that human curiosity is undying, and that the results we announced would be enough to spear others ahead on the same age-long pursuit of the unknown.
H.P. Lovecraft
#99. Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.
Isaac Asimov
