Curiosity Quotes

I don't know what's on the other side.

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

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

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.

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

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

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

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.

Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

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.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

Curiosity is its own reason.

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

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

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?

Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.