Curiosity Quotes · Page 16

“Curiosity can be as dangerous as a butterfly hovering over a flame.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“How curious. How rare. How little we ever know anyone.”

— Julie Berry

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

In you I find the completion of me and the wonder of us.

— Anonymous

“Nature of a question reflects the nature of the person.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Turbines are a curiosity, but only once.

— Anne Murray

The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

— D. H. Lawrence

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

— Adam Conover

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

— Anais Nin

Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

— Steve Jobs

Follow your curiosity, and have the courage to meet the challenge. That's where science starts, in my opinion.

— Tasuku Honjo

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

— Yann Martel

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

— Penelope Lively

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

— Samuel Johnson

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

— Nadine Gordimer

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

— Jason Mraz

“I think we’ve lost our awareness of what “wonder” really means: the more we content ourselves with the narrow confines of our…

— James Runcie

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.…

— Tony Schwartz

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to…

— Sherman Alexie

“Wonder is a verb. An activity, like walking or eating cheese. Despite what we may think we are all already philosophers; the…

— Thomas Swanson

We don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we're curious...…

— Anonymous

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us…

— David Suzuki

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own…

— Bill Watterson

May have killed the cat; more likely the cat was just unlucky, or else curious to see what death was like, having…

— Alastair Reid

“The individual is drawn by two forces. First, the spirits desire of uniting all spirits. Second, a mixture of survival, fear and…

— Monaristw

But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new…

— Gary Zukav

Some, in their curiosity, will say, "But you Mormons have another Bible! Do you believe in the Old and New Testaments?" I…

— Brigham Young

In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a…

— Walt Mossberg

My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that…

— Hayden Carruth

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when…

— William Maxwell

“In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.”

— David Levithan

Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

— Philip Sidney

“The horizon is not for conquest but for curiosity.”

— Lawrence Nault

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

— Ray Bradbury

Curiosity is nothing more than freewheeling intelligence.

— Anonymous

“Not knowing is not a problem, not wondering is.”

— Chase Weir

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

— Anonymous

“The question is a curious collection of words.”

— Ted Agon