One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest… — Norma Kamali Copy Share Image
Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us,… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn… — Alexander Herrmann Copy Share Image
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions. Beware of anyone who insists on reframing your sincere… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for… — Nick Minchin Copy Share Image
“Women's curiosity was given a negative connotation, whereas men were called investigative. Women were called nosy, whereas men were called inquiring. In… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“The truly interesting question for man is neither logic, a fascinating game, nor demonstration, an inviting curiosity. Rather, the intriguing problem for… — Luigi Giussani Copy Share Image
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
My mother and father were united in their determination to start me out in a program that they believed would nurture me… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“What these older physicians exhibited is termed clinical curiosity. They stroke to understand their patients in order to elucidate the underlying medical… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Moreover, knowledge and investigation help promote wonder they do not destroy it. Whatever our tastes, we can generally appreciate such things as… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“Both scepticism and wonder are skills that need honing and practice. Their harmonious marriage within the mind of every schoolchild ought to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty, transparent fingers. He stood gazing in wonder… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I know there are days when even one single positive thought feels like too much effort, but you must develop an unconditional… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It started up from the skies. Hello…wait, don't run away. I won't touch you…don't run away. I just want to talk to… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“Faith taints or at worst removes our curiosity about the world, what we should value, and what type of life we should… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of… — Molly Picon Copy Share Image
What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
We all have to acknowledge the life and the path we were born into. And the things that define us, they're often… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image