Top 40 Quotes About Intellectual Curiosity
#1. Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
Ronald Reagan
#2. I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.
Guy Kawasaki
#3. But it isn't true," Orville responded emphatically, "to say we had no special advantages . . . the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity.
David McCullough
#4. Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.
Siri Hustvedt
#5. I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
Kevin Mitnick
#6. The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.
Ronald Reagan
#7. I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
Renee Fleming
#8. Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
Philip Athans
#9. Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
Kevin Mitnick
#10. I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.
Elayne Boosler
#11. Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
Caroline Kennedy
#12. A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society.
Timothy Gowers
#13. My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.
Kevin Mitnick
#14. My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
Chesley Sullenberger
#15. We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.
Sam Harris
#16. With intellectual curiosity the world will always be full of magic and wonder.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#17. 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
#18. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.
Hallam Stevens
#19. Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
Tom Robbins
#20. (For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?)
Christopher Moore
#21. Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.
Gordon Gee
#23. Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science.
Eraldo Banovac
#24. After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.
Caroline Kennedy
#25. My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
#26. Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote an entire working life to one particular discipline.
Robert W. Bly
#27. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#28. My spiritual investigations interest my sister mostly from a point of intellectual curiosity. 'I think that kind of faith is so beautiful,' she whispers to me in the church, 'but I can't do it, I just can't ...
Elizabeth Gilbert
#29. 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
#30. The time travelers are usually adapt at "intercrossing" different fields of expertise. That's the beauty of the hobbyist: it's generally easier to mix different intellectual fields when you have a whole array of them littering your study or your garage.
Steven Johnson
#31. One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
William Lyon Phelps
#32. Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan
#33. Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
Alfred North Whitehead
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. One of the greatest product of a meaningful education is the intellectual curiosity that leads men and women to continued learning and makes them eager to learn as the experience of life reveals areas of ignorance.
M.A. Khan
#39. Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities - a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity - but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.
Steven Johnson
#40. If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.
G.H. Hardy