Curiosity Quotes · Page 41

“even reluctant curiosity would give way to habit, and habit to dependency.”

— Edwin G. Burrows

“I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.”

— Criss Jami

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

— Mason Cooley

It's very important to be curious in a very universal way. Whether someone is poor or rich, I'm curious about everything.

— David Tang

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

— Henry James

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important…

— Martha Stewart

Is it any wonder I'm null and void, is it any wonder I've got too much time on my hands.

— Styx

“Don’t confuse your desperate need to know everything with a regular human’s mere curiosity.”

— Eliza Crewe

“[77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other…

— Blaise Pascal

I have insane curiosity as to what happened in all these events. I will never know. I'm not a researcher. I don't…

— James Ellroy

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not…

— May-Britt Moser

“Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than…

— Chris Bell

“When curiosity is an end in itself—a perspective, a viewpoint, a way of life—then it fuels an easy, egoless, playful relationship between…

— Vironika Tugaleva

A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot…

— Herodotus

For me, intrigue is a pretty powerful emotion. If you want to know more about a character, if you want to understand…

— A Fine Frenzy

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell…

— Mark Twain

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,…

— Dean Koontz

“People have a tendency to be curious. They ask questions all to find the answers disturbing to their limitless mind and unbelievable…

— Niedria Dionne Kenny

...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -…

— Yehudi Menuhin

“Behren's work resists easy classification. It is part expedition journal, part museum installation, part allegorical theatre. At the centre of the evolving…

— Christina Jansen

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in…

— Oliver Goldsmith

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh;…

— Charles Horton Cooley

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

— James Hutton

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

— John Bytheway

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

— Neil Armstrong

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

— Anne Sweeney

“Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

— Alice Walker

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

— Dorothy Parker

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

— Renee Fleming

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

— Gillian Cross

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly~Anuj Somany

— Anuj Somany

“The created a displacement devise that separated solids into fragmented molecules.”

— Gabriel F.W. Koch

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

— David Attenborough

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

— Richard Ford

“Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.”

— Angela Carter

“...he eyed him with a curiosity which seemed to say, that he only wanted to know him to be rich, to be…

— Jane Austen