Top 65 Curious Mind Quotes
#1. For a curious mind world's explanation is never enough
Sipendr
#2. The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#3. Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.
Joanna Baillie
#4. A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.
Pearl Zhu
#5. A knowledgeable curious mind is the bridging ground for ideas.
Debasish Mridha
#6. At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
Chip Conley
#7. A curious mind is never bored.
Min Kim
#9. Scholarships have provided financial support to enhance the potential of curious mind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
M.J. Rose
#11. They had all of the pieces, and it just took one curious mind to put it all together.
Alexandra Bracken
#12. 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
#13. The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
Jose Saramago
#16. The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#17. A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence.
Debasish Mridha
#18. What is a bookshelf other than a treasure chest for a curious mind...
Unknown
#19. I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction." Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable elements of this story to be true, and the more low-key elements to be fudged.
Dan Grajek
#20. I have always been curious about other people. I wonder what goes on in their minds, whether they are good, or bad and I wonder about their lives.
Matthew Carter
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.
Paul Auster
#25. The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.
Laurence Sterne
#26. Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.
John Steinbeck
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used.
Jess Walter
#30. The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.
Robert Reich
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. [Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that narrow world was. It's amazing to think we can do it. We can have that same kind of trajectory of mind.
Anne Waldman
#38. Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist.
Abhijit Naskar
#39. What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain!
Marie Of Romania
#40. 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
#41. [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
#42. We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
Charles Dickens
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things
useful things.
Deanna Raybourn
#47. 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
#48. Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.
John Hutchinson
#49. Watching the world walk by
in its curious shoes
pg. 61// A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#50. Inventiveness depends upon two habits of mind, which we can adopt and develop: attention and
curiosity.
Attention means paying attention.....
Curiosity means just that. Endlessly curious. Endlessly asking questions. Endlessly wanting to know
how, and why?
Richard N. Bolles
#51. 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
#52. He was all sin and mystery, and Miranda feared the pleasures he offered as she feared the fires of hell. Yet when she succumbed at last, it was not because her body was weak but because her mind was curious.
Anya Seton
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. When you have an open mind and you're flexible....not married to your beliefs, you can see clearly because you're able to feel and remain neutral at the same time.
You're curious.
Dana Gore
#58. I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
Stephen Fry
#59. The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
Mignon McLaughlin
#61. The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.
Lin Yutang
#62. 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
#63. You've changed my mind,' she said shyly. I noted her curious choice of words but refused to let her say any more. Additional conversation would only confuse the matter. If I could change her mind without knowing it, I could just as easily change it back again by accident.
Mike Gayle
#64. Knowing the question is more important than knowing the answer. It makes you curious, lets you think, and helps you to understand and open your mind.
Debasish Mridha
#65. We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.
Simon Sinek
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