Curiosity Quotes

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

Curiosity is its own reason.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

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

but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

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

I have a natural curiosity for people.

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

Your curiosity is your growth point. Always.

One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity or some energy or some mystery.

I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.

Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?

Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ.

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw

I'm full of curiosity.

The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.

It is very important to have a widespread curiosity about life.

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

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.