Curiosity Quotes · Page 71

Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.

— Paul Allen

As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared…

— Noam Chomsky

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

— Edmund Burke

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

— Plato

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

— Iris Murdoch

Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been…

— Saul Alinsky

She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front…

— Rachel Vincent

What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a…

— Julius Sumner Miller

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share…

— Steven Johnson

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

— Ian Hacking

The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

— Walt Disney

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll…

— Al Pacino

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

— Leigh Hunt

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination.…

— Darell Hammond

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the…

— Polixeni Papapetrou

“Female curiosity. Women like to know the stories of their friends' lives. Women like to understand”

— Holly Chamberlin

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

— Doris Lessing

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing…

— Marina Warner

I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I'm curious about something, I'll go quite far to satisfy my…

— Alain de Botton

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

— Socrates

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high,…

— Robert Greene

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means…

— Meryl Streep

“Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.”

— Victor Hugo