“I have an unhealthy curiosity about other people’s business.” — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a fundamental part of growing up and we need to encourage our kids to do it. — Michaela Strachan Copy Share Image
All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen. — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
“And now you see why some facts, some pieces of knowledge, have to be snuffed out as soon as they form. Curiosity… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it's up the individual and… — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose… — Tharman Shanmugaratnam Copy Share Image
“I have found a higher calling; inspirational-writing! I can’t imagine myself doing any other work, when I ought to write and transmit,… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
“It must have been unpleasant to be discussed as a curiosity, spoken about over breakfast, and between rounds at billiards, as if… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“My final two cents worth of advice is to develop an all-consuming curiosity for things both exotic and ordinary. Read, observe, analyze,… — John Canemaker Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image