Curiosity Quotes

More depended on the student than on the school.

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or an...

Curiosity is the main energy...

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with ...

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," abou...

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, mor...

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala's ...

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investi...

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is ...

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by ...

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I exp...

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will l...

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone sho...

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us...

But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do no...

The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. T...

Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.Aly rolled her eyes. Why did ev...

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts ...

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess th...

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles al...

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the conse...

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable cur...

I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yo...

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own c...

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young gene...

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and se...

Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inerti...

Editors are licensed to be curious.

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to sh...

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that neede...

Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .' He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting...

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to...

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of t...

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes t...

What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things—but until thinking's go...

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a...

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is a...

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness...

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us ...

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 (...