Curiosity Quotes

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.

You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much.

Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.

Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.

Curiosity is the main energy.

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity.

Learning is by nature, curiosity.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

I like to keep my curiosity alive and question everything, and because I hate leaving something undone once I start it, I think far into the future.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

There is no better catalyst to success than curiosity.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

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

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

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

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.