Top 84 Quotes About Being Curious
#1. Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.
Lewis Thomas
#2. Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.
Lemony Snicket
#3. I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.
Stefan Hell
#4. 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
#5. Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious and compassionate can take you out of your ego and edge your soul towards wonder.
Mary Karr
#6. And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.
Ned Vizzini
#7. For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my ears and in my small body.
Dee Williams
#8. Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.
Andrew Zuckerman
#9. Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.
Anders Holm
#10. I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.
Nicolas Jaar
#11. There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.
Jewel
#12. I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.
Rupert Murdoch
#13. The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.
Randy Gage
#14. 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
#15. I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.
Jodie Foster
#16. Most people overestimate risk, failure and danger and underestimate the value of being curious.
Deepak Chopra
#17. It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious about how they work is the single most common trait I see in creative people. Once you can break the components down, you can put them back together into something brand new.
Seth
#18. Having been thrust out of the world because of my race, I had accepted my destiny by not being curious about what shaped it
Richard Wright
#19. The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#20. I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.
James Earl Jones
#21. Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying his richness and complexity in a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities, each of them brought to some curious end, to some characteristic exuberance.
Bruno Schulz
#22. I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.
Derek Sivers
#23. Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.
Christie Hefner
#24. 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
#25. I don't think about it in terms of being a woman. Being gracious, attentive, curious, interested are requirements for everyone.
Jenna Lyons
#26. MRS. ALLONBY. Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands.
Oscar Wilde
#27. Emma's gaze went from Alec to Jace, curious. "Do you worry about him?" she asked Alec, surprising a laugh out of him.
"All the time," he said. "Jace could get himself killed putting his pants on in the morning. Being his parabatai is a full-time job.
Cassandra Clare
#28. If our sense of who we are is defined by feelings of neediness and insecurity, we forget that we are also curious, humorous and caring. We forget about the breath that is nourishing us, the love that unites us, the enormous beauty and fragility that is our shared experience in being alive.
Tara Brach
#29. The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
soul, and he has got dozens.
D.H. Lawrence
#30. 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
#31. Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world.
Dolly Parton
#32. I love people! I am a people person. I am a very curious human being. I am very interested in what people have to say. I love cultures, too, so I am always traveling.
Kenny Johnson
#33. 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
#34. Dr. Finch had drunk so long and so deep of his heady brew that his being was shot through with curious mannerisms and odd exclamations.
Harper Lee
#35. But I'm human. Besides being irrational, stupid, and unpredictable, humans are really curious. I needed to know what the hell was making that noise.
Manel Loureiro
#36. Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.
Art Linkletter
#37. I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my personal best.
Adina Porter
#38. A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.
Connie Nielsen
#39. 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
#40. Being an older mom, I'm super mellow with my kids. Also, "curious" and "loving."
Sheryl Crow
#41. The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
Dana Goodyear
#42. Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's ... if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder,
Mark Haddon
#43. I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
Winston Churchill
#44. Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person.
Maria Bello
#45. Being a cat means beautiful, agile, innocent, brave, curious and trust also honorable respect for as much as not so doing bribery.
Sekar Arum
#46. The curious alchemy of cookery, that process of making the transfer of life from one being to another palatable.
Diana Gabaldon
#47. Is that love, do you think?" he asks, sounding genuinely curious. "Being crazy about someone no matter how much they hurt you?
Stacey Jay
#48. I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
Peter Greenaway
#49. Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.
Louisa May Alcott
#50. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now, he thinks,
Anthony Doerr
#51. I'm very curious and being childlike
is vital in our industry
Paul Smith
#52. Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.
Frederick Lenz
#53. What's so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they're overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#54. What eventually set him apart was his mindset and drive. He never stopped being the curious, tinkering boy looking for new challenges.
Carol S. Dweck
#55. Being passionately curious about things give us the desire to want to learn, to explore and to seek opportunities to set goals and accomplish great things. It allows us to dream.
Ellen J. Barrier
#56. 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
#58. I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.
Antonya Nelson
#59. The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
W. Somerset Maugham
#60. 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
#61. She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
Oscar Wilde
#62. 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
#63. What it really takes to find particles these days is money and lots of it. There is a curious inverse relationship in modern physics between the tininess of the thing being sought and the scale of the facilities required to do the searching.
Bill Bryson
#64. Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.
Norman Mailer
#65. But being smart was overrated. Being stupid and brave and curious? Now that's something stories are made of. Dimarion's
Traci Chee
#66. She wouldn't be afraid of vampires as such: being rash and curious, she'd be the first into the forbidden crypt. But she wouldn't like the thought of Tin turning into one, or turning into anyone other than her idea of him. Meanwhile,
Margaret Atwood
#67. I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
Bruce Dickinson
#68. The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.
Shannon L. Alder
#69. The most beautiful women I know are passionate, curious, funny and have a deep sense of purpose and they are all over 70! Finding these qualities in myself, and celebrating them in other women is the starting place of being Gorgeous for Good.
Sophie Heyman Uliano
#70. Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#71. I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.
Michael J. Fox
#72. Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!
Mathieu Amalric
#73. I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes without it being one note. My fear was that I didn't want to join something where I was just going to be this prop and this mustache twirling character.
Shawn Hatosy
#74. The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be
and that's so tempting.
Millicent Fenwick
#75. The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Thomas Wolfe
#76. And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often away and handy about the house when ashore, it did make for a curious gathering when the spouses were invited to a ball.
Patrick O'Brian
#77. Lord Wellington is in the Lines. It was a very curious phrase and if Strange had been obliged to hazard a guess at its meaning he believed he would have said it was some sort of slang for being drunk.
Susanna Clarke
#78. Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there's really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn't come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.
Maxine Greene
#79. Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.
Jodi Picoult
#81. It's nice being offered a lot of interesting films and being asked to take part in things that are quite curious. If you hunt and keep looking, there are some wonderful things that come out.
Mark Rylance
#82. And every stone and every star a tongue,
And every gale of wind a curious song.
The Heavens were an oracle, and spoke
Divinity: the Earth did undertake
The office of a priest; and I being dumb
(Nothing besides was dumb) all things did come
With voices and instructions ...
Thomas Traherne
#83. When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I'm silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#84. 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
