Curiosity Quotes

As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

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

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

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road.

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Curiosity is the starting point for great science.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.

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

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that.

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

You know what a woman's curiosity is.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.