Curiosity Quotes

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise sense of form.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

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

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

Unfortunately, the only recognized relics of yesterday's farmers are obsolete curiosities when the greatest relic, their philosophy of living, is seldom considered.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.

Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

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

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

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

People die when curiosity goes.

Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.