“Of all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There was something a little twisted about an ex-girlfriend giving her blessing for him to pursue a curiosity with a man. Why… — Ann Lister Copy Share Image
You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to… — Arthur Leonard Schawlow Copy Share Image
Yet everybody's experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity. — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I come from a culture that was isolated for a long time - I have my own story to tell, in my… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Those who saw the true beauty, complexity and the very nature of Nature are [all] incapable of using their intelligence for conciously… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Wait, what?” is at the root of all understanding. “I wonder . . . ?” is at the heart of all curiosity. “Couldn’t we… — James E. Ryan Copy Share Image
“I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and… — Dale J. Stephens Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher –… — John Countryman Copy Share Image
If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Being in front of a class full of kids, you are giving a performance. You have to get their attention. You've got… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
“My favorite words in the world are these: “what” and “if” in conjunction. They question curiosities in simple form and function. “What”… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
So don't break me tonight This is crazy love And you know I'm gunna follow you home Through the rain Cause I… — Carly Rae Jepson Copy Share Image
Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end,… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit,… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
“An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what… — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image