Do we arouse our curiosity or does our curiosity arouse us?

“People can wonder and ponder and imagine all they want. But their curiosity does not entitle them to enter my world.”

— Barry Lyga

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

— Abraham Cowley

What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest?…

— Julian Barnes

“Or is there a natural curiosity and sense of wonder that arises and puts you very much in touch with all of the mysterious…

— Nirmala

I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which…

— Willis R. Whitney

What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle…

— Julius Sumner Miller

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through…

— Herta Muller

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good…

— Noam Chomsky

“The principle of genuine creativity is not to depict but to arouse.”

— Prof.Salam Al Shereida

When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and…

— Preston Manning

Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring…

— Giordano Bruno

Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such…

— Marianne Williamson

In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and…

— James Fenton

“Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex as our…

— C.M. Stunich