Curiosity Quotes · Page 48

but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question -…

— Oscar Wilde

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

— Horace

When I began modelling I was completely unprepared for the onslaught of curiosity it carried with it.

— Sophie Dahl

“Curiosity, imagination, inventiveness expand with use, like muscles,and atrophy with neglect.”

— Paul Gruchow

What does the wind give? What does the wind take away? Where is the storehouse of the lost and found?

— Pam Munoz Ryan

“Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.”

— Kij Johnson

There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

— Jeanette Winterson

I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and…

— Dale J. Stephens

I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started…

— David McCullough

I come from a culture that was isolated for a long time - I have my own story to tell, in my…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human…

— Roger Ebert

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a…

— Alexander von Humboldt

Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are…

— Tony Robbins

Yet everybody's experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity.

— Tom Burke

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to…

— Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges…

— Bryan Magee

We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses…

— James Hillman

If you try to impose a rigid discipline while teaching a child or a chimp you are working against the boundless curiosity…

— Roger Fouts

All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble…

— Mark Twain

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that…

— Robertson Davies

The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

“In Anton Chekhov’s play the Three Sisters, sister Masha refuses ‘to live and not know why the cranes fly, why children are…

— Chet Raymo

I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

— George Santayana

“The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)”

— Valerio Varesi

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

— Plato

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

— Pamela Anderson

“The money we spend to help you is really to help ourselves. We invest in you because you will do great things,…

— Steven Decker

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

— Saul Bass

Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

— Lord Byron

“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its…

— Anthony Liccione

As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

— Joanna Coles

“Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious. ”

— Joseph Conrad

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

— Woody Allen

My Grinnell education didn't prepare me directly for the work that I'm doing, but it did give me the tools that I…

— Hilary Mason

“Man’s curiosity drives him to seek the answer to every question. But it’s the unanswered questions that are the most exciting.”

— George R.R. Martin

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

— Hilary Hahn