Curiosity Quotes

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.

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side ...

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the ...

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a gre...

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a u...

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of ...

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of ne...

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psy...

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

Sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him; f...

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at...

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and ...

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who inter...

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, ...

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks a...

She [Mme des Laumes] belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half fe...

He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this c...

We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands in...

At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a cur...

All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppr...

People like me are blamed for curiosity; having lost part of our lives, we are apt to fill the gap f...

We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us.

I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hi...

Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readines...

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than underst...

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into ...

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. ...

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...

A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as th...

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil ...

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to c...

I was on the shy side at school (one school report called me ‘diffident’) and Braefield had added a ...

Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among sol...

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no...

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people w...

Who knows what adventure we might find here?" Drizzt said excitedly. "Who knows what secrets might b...