I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me. — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Curiosity doesn't matter anymore. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react. — Hector Babenco Copy Share Image
I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI. — Alan Davies Copy Share Image
The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Wonder, as a point of concern, denies its own consideration. It has the remarkable capacity to hide in the midst of its… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The temptation To take the precious things we have apart To see how they work Must be resisted for they never fit… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
To make yourself a good scientist I would say first, you have to have curiosity. If you don't have any curiosity you… — Tasuku Honjo Copy Share Image
People who have not seen me or don't know much about me are curious and that I don't mind that bit of… — Tanishk Bagchi Copy Share Image
“Why is my love for you, dyed in wool? What is the hindrance to moving on? Why in love have I been… — Zubair Ahsan Copy Share Image
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this is so;… — R. Murray Schafer Copy Share Image
My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“our curiosity as a species will not allow us to remain locked to our home planet much longer. Humankind must explore, for… — Eugene Cernan Copy Share Image
An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“great thinkers simply got stuck out of sheer curiosity investigating very general questions about the way things are.” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.” — Marni Bates Copy Share Image
Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in — Scott Nicholson Copy Share Image
You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
“I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Without expectations, what can topple the surprising wonder of the moment?” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you've never allowed yourself to… — Elizabeth Lomeli Copy Share Image
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Be selective with whom you share your problems, because only few people care others are just curious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image