Curiosity Quotes · Page 46

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“A curious world isn't it? We think we meet people by chance when chance has nothing to do with it.”

— Galen Beckett

See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity

— Cyndi Lee

“I could spend the rest of my life READING, Just satisfying my CURIOSITY - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not…

— Malcolm X

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Curiosity is not a sin… But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

— Anonymous

“More than intelligence or persistence or connections, curiosity has allowed me to live the life I wanted. Curiosity”

— Brian Grazer

“I am constantly searching for places that rekindle my sense of wonder.”

— Gillian Anderson & Jeff Rovin

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity.…

— Dawoud Bey

“Each component of this trinity of human endeavor—science, religion, and art—lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about…

— Mamie Gummer

In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain…

— Ernest Starling

My creative is curiosity conversations...All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something…

— Brian Grazer

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure…

— Ramana Maharshi

I eat healthily and exercise, and I'm not giving up and saying I'm too old - I'm just determined to keep on…

— Ellen Burstyn

Have you ever wondered if there's someone who thinks about you when they can't sleep? Or smiles at just the mention of…

— Anonymous

In period pieces or genre pieces, those have to be set in historical truths. But, science fiction has different game pieces. And…

— Tamlyn Tomita

“Curiosity-driven research may seem self-indulgent and far from the immediate public good. However, essentially all of our current quality of life, for…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.…

— Samuel Johnson

Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations,…

— Edith Wharton

“Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral…

— Doris Lessing

“Some psychological thinkers, including Freud and Bettelheim, have interpreted episodes such as those found in the Bluebeard tale as psychological punishments for…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's…

— John Fowles

“Curiosity comes out of a sense of safety; rigidity out of being vigilant to threats.”

— Sue Johnson

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

— Lara St. John

The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.

— Michael Palin

Curiosity is a fundamental part of growing up and we need to encourage our kids to do it.

— Michaela Strachan

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

— Geoff Dyer

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

— Christopher Nolan

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything…

— Diane Ackerman

My curiosity and my academic side only really came through outside of school life.

— Paterson Joseph

“Curiosity will not cause us to die, only lack of it will. For only the curious have, if they live, a tale…

— Allastair Reid

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

— Lauren DeStefano

Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity

— Craig Mello

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

— Anna Journey

“It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

...Who spoons the water from the cloud to the snow-cap to the river and feeds it to the hungry ocean?

— Pan Munoz Ryan

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

— Michael Korda