Curiosity Quotes

Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

I had never seen a real live dead person.

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

You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!

Editors are licensed to be curious.

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

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

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

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

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

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

I call horses divine mirrors - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.

My own chief curiosity is to go into the world and explore as richly as I can, and as deeply as I can, and understand its richness as fully as I can, and that certainly will live on.

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.

Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. "His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat.

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

Curiosity began my journey, which led to regret, which brings me always to wonder and dedication.