Curiosity Quotes

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cann...

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and s...

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of ...

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in ob...

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civ...

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the pur...

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the ...

There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Yesterday I watched a curious nightfall. The cloud ceiling took on a warm tone, deepened, and depart...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiven...

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restr...

I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, ...

The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in...

Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting...

The temptationTo take the precious things we have apartTo see how they workMust be resisted for they...

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

The rising strong reckoning has two deceptively simple parts: (1) engaging with our feelings, and (2...

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of t...

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of...

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading...

If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure tha...

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his...

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (...

Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to...

You were very serious,” her grandmother continued. “You had these big brown eyes and you were always...

You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" "My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you...

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but...

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that the...

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you...

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an inte...

ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging o...

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...

Philosophers have argued about the strongest emotion known to man. Some say ‘love’, others ‘hate’, o...

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most usefu...

I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not every...

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them ...

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was t...

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Who now would thrust enquiry on / Beyond necessity of desire?

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but ...

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enou...

Curiosity is my great vice. I fear you have seen through to the heart of me, and now seek to exploit...

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does ...

The source of love, as I learned later, is a curiosity which, combined with the inclination which na...

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a sma...

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example,...

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually ev...

Where there's guts, there's curiosity, and where there's curiosity, there's guts.

When you sneak into somebody’s backyard, it does seem that guts and curiosity are working together. ...

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed ...

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

He read as much as his curiosity demanded - which is to say all

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path o...

As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .

Guyal of Sfere had been born one apart from his fellows and early proved a source of vexation for hi...

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt...

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.