Quotes About Curiosity

#1. It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.

Oliver Burkeman

#2. China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

Ai Weiwei

#3. The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#4. When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

Oliver Goldsmith

#5. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

#6. The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

Max McKeown

#7. When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.'

Trent Reznor

#8. I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Anne Sweeney

#9. My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves.

Carl Sagan

#10. It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.

Donald Barthelme

#11. The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.

Jacky Ickx

#12. I'm not a nazis or fascist, I'm just normal guy who have a lot of curios about a lot of stuff in other words I have curiosity for information.

Deyth Banger

#13. The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball or something to have the proper respect, but we like to get rowdy.

Hank Williams III

#14. Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

Lord Byron

#15. He gave me a look of mingled anticipation, curiosity, and compassion, like a cat with a captive bird in its claws.

Walter Moers

#16. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

#17. Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

Martin Bashir

#18. There was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

Nenia Campbell

#19. [Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries

Steven E. Landsburg

#20. The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.

Edward Gibbon

#21. I looked up in curiosity. Behind us stood the Brown and Eagle Wool Warehouse and Schneider's Cap Factory, both constructed with that wholehearted devotion to industry that sullied the word architecture.

Lyndsay Faye

#22. 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

#23. When aggression seems to turn to curiosity, fear to security ... then it is acceptance.

Sameh Elsayed

#24. While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind.

Sigurd F. Olson

#25. Darwin knew that the mother of the blush was shame. For Darwin, shame defines our essential humanity. Silvan Tomkins views shame as an innate feeling that limits our experience of interest, curiosity and pleasure.

John Bradshaw

#26. [Parker J.] Palmer points out that knowledge today is driven by two motives, curiosity and control. Curiosity gives us pure science, and control gives us technology. Then he asserts that there is a third component that is regularly disregarded but essential to true knowledge--compassion, or love.

Albert Greene

#27. That my most important values are honesty, empathy, and intellectual curiosity. That I'm unwilling to tolerate women who don't make me happy, no matter how hot they are.

Mark Manson

#28. He was explicit sex, personified.
I was hungered curiosity, caged.
And as long as I held onto the key, my heart would remain unscathed.

K.M. Golland

#29. Discover insights into these and other questions. Until then, let's allow God to use our curiosity to keep us committed to our excursion

Beth Moore

#30. What are you after?"
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"Well," said Zaphod airily, "It's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think it's the fame and the money ...

Douglas Adams

#31. Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

Sam Wyly

#32. Philosophy is man's expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

Alan Watts

#33. Fear is the enemy of curiosity.

Warren Berger

#34. Academic library collections are designed to support critical thinking, skepticism about the known, and curiosity about the unknown.

Wayne Bivens-Tatum

#35. Surprises always await for those with the energy and curiosity to look; so always look. Stay surprised and live forever.

Garry Fitchett

#36. Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.

Tim Brown

#37. When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.

Horace Walpole

#38. Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

Gene Cernan

#39. The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

#40. Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#41. It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.

Paula Gunn Allen

#42. Interest in the arts among entrepreneurs, inventors, and eminent scientists obviously reflects their curiosity and aptitude. People who are open to new ways of looking at science and business also tend to be fascinated by the expression of ideas and emotions through images, sounds, and words.

Adam M. Grant

#43. I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

Brian Grazer

#44. Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#45. Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

Honore De Balzac

#46. Grinberg (1983), in exploring the analyst's professional identity, stresses a particular kind of curiosity regarding the mind and psychic reality, a curiosity that extends to the analyst's own psychic functioning; Grinberg

Otto F. Kernberg

#47. Empowerment is the algebraic outcome of curiosity and humility.

Anonymous

#48. One of the greatest lessons that comes from meditation is that a relaxed curiosity about life and sleepwalking through it are two radically different choices

Ethan Nichtern

#49. There will come a time when man is no longer concerned only with survival, when he will once more be curious as to who came before him, what life was like a thousand years ago, and he will seek out answers for a hundred years or so, but humans' curiosity has always driven them to find answers.

Julie Kagawa

#50. The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

Walt Disney

#51. It must always remain the great curiosity of history - a whim, a fantasy, an apparition, a thing unexpected and undreamed; and it should serve as a warning to those rash political theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes. Capitalism

Jack London

#52. Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

Maria Tatar

#53. We just wanted to see whose dick was in yer mouth. Call it curiosity.

Jason Medina

#54. Bill Clinton was effective because he had that personal relationship, that this was a guy who had tremendous curiosity, which is another one of the key attributes. And he had the ability - his mind was - his mind and his heart were very well-connected. And so he genuinely empathized.

Frank Luntz

#55. Curiosity was always my weakness and, once more, it got the better of me. [Vincent]

Karen Maitland

#56. As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#57. It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not mean for us to use it.

Matthew S. Williams

#58. The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had the curiosity, or the method to find out.

Thomas Hobbes

#59. Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.

James Mirrlees

#60. Curiosity can either open doors or blow you away!" Captain Hank Bracker

Hank Bracker

#61. 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

#62. Science is a satisfactory curiosity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. Vainglory and curiosity are the twin scourges of our souls. The former makes us stick our noses into everything: the latter forbids us to leave anything unresolved or undecided.

Michel De Montaigne

#64. Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

Steven Chu

#65. Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

Linus Pauling

#66. In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

#67. You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.

Elizabeth Naramore

#68. Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

Ahmed Zewail

#69. If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.

Gerard Butler

#70. What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

Victor Hugo

#71. Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

#72. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

Michael J. Fox

#73. Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.

Dhaval Gajera

#74. I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.

Raf Simons

#75. Your lack of questioning and curiosity has been the bane of my existence.

Poppet

#76. Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.

Kenneth G. Wilson

#77. Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

Mason Cooley

#78. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

Albert Einstein

#79. But the thing I notice most isn't what's in them - surprise, disbelief, curiosity, maybe a little pity - it's what's not. Judgment. Disdain. Horror. None of the things I've so often seen in people's eyes when I've had to tell them my story.
Now I want to kiss her even more.

M. Leighton

#80. The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

Ann Coulter

#81. It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.

Jack Finney

#82. I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

Eric Betzig

#83. In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.

E.B. White

#84. Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Daniel Boone

#85. Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.

Lucy Poate Stebbins

#86. 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

#87. Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity. One inspired teacher can alter a student for life by instilling curiosity.

Deepak Chopra

#88. A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#89. I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

David O. Russell

#90. Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

Anatole France

#91. If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

Jean De La Bruyere

#92. Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

Roger Ebert

#93. Curiosity killed the cat, you know, but satisfaction brought him back snap-ass happy.

Stephen King

#94. The remaining, less developed characters, were still either listening or laughing. They were divided between curiosity and satisfaction. They felt happy, but did not know it.

Elias Canetti

#95. Develop a sincere curiosity and fascination towards people and life will become an adventure.

Mensah Oteh

#96. Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

Mason Cooley

#97. The soul is imbued with a yearning that is carried, like a torch, from incarnation to incarnation. It burns with a curiosity about life and it's true identity. Souls live, strive, and evolve, driven to seeking the truth about the world and themselves.

Stefan Emunds

#98. Honor your desire for a new life. Say yes to the small inklings of interest and curiosity that present themselves each day.

Lynn A. Robinson

#99. Every novel I've written has been about finding stuff out. I'm motivated much more by curiosity than by self-expression.

Jane Smiley

#100. Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt.

Joshua Neik