Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us,… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest… — Norma Kamali Copy Share Image
First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough… — George Tenet Copy Share Image
One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“There will come a time when man is no longer concerned only with survival, when he will once more be curious as… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
We all have to acknowledge the life and the path we were born into. And the things that define us, they're often… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
“A 22-year-old woman who spends six months backpacking across Asia sends a powerful message about her curiosity, open-mindedness, and even courage. Similar… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton was effective because he had that personal relationship, that this was a guy who had tremendous curiosity, which is another… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity,… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
“For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When I sat down to make a list of characters in history who exhibited curiosity, most were women. I thought it was… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a picture of herself as a close-lipped, silent, reserved individual without curiosity, who never asked personal questions. Actually, of… — Molly Picon Copy Share Image
As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
“Faith taints or at worst removes our curiosity about the world, what we should value, and what type of life we should… — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
“It started up from the skies. Hello…wait, don't run away. I won't touch you…don't run away. I just want to talk to… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty, transparent fingers. He stood gazing in wonder… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I know there are days when even one single positive thought feels like too much effort, but you must develop an unconditional… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Both scepticism and wonder are skills that need honing and practice. Their harmonious marriage within the mind of every schoolchild ought to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Moreover, knowledge and investigation help promote wonder they do not destroy it. Whatever our tastes, we can generally appreciate such things as… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I was feeling like I'd been born in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. I don't believe… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“What these older physicians exhibited is termed clinical curiosity. They stroke to understand their patients in order to elucidate the underlying medical… — Danielle Ofri Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“Women's curiosity was given a negative connotation, whereas men were called investigative. Women were called nosy, whereas men were called inquiring. In… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image