Curiosity Quotes · Page 38

Music is pure inspiration and curiosity, when it strikes you; you feel no pain, but desire.

— Wazim Shaw

“The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ”

— Oscar Wilde

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in…

— Kim Cattrall

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

— Winston Churchill

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to…

— Woodrow Wilson

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved…

— Douglas William Jerrold

“Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just…

— Melissa Senate

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

— Will Eisner

It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with…

— James Cameron

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the…

— Brit Marling

“The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought…

— Isaac Asimov

It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme…

— Harry S. Truman

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity,…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I was electrified by this theory, I could feel my footsteps dancing and I begin to laugh. I was perfectly aware that…

— Jacqueline Harpman

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And…

— Richard Armour

“and I did not ask. Later I felt bad about this. I knew, even then, that whenever I nodded along in ignorance,…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come…

— Guity Novin

“After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I…

— Saul Bellow

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is…

— John Dewey

“Be curious, relentlessly curious. “I have no special talents,” Einstein once wrote to a friend. “I am just passionately curious.”4 Leonardo actually…

— Walter Isaacson

I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a…

— John Adams

“The individual is drawn by [at least] two forces. First, the spirits desire of uniting with all spirits. Second, a mixture of…

— Psixomaxaristw

We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I…

— Richard Bach

I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would…

— John Green

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

— Brooke Astor

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and…

— Carly Rae Jepsen

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

— Philo

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my…

— Richard Artschwager

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.

— Clarence Birdseye

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

— Frederick Seitz

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

— e. e. cummings

“Curiosity is a youthful beauty. Connected to joy and slipping around old beliefs, it urges us to investigate rather than assume.”

— Jeanne McElvaney

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human…

— Joe Murray

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

— Anthony Doerr

I don't analyze songs because I think it will make me a better songwriter, I just do it out of sheer curiosity.

— Finneas

He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most…

— Josef Pieper

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

— Rush Limbaugh

I suppose I've always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong.

— Richard Coles