“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.” — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity. — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
“Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness.” — Megan Shepherd Copy Share Image
We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. — John Cage Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals. — David Bryan Copy Share Image
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When society puts some small fraction of its wealth into asking and answering big questions, it reminds us all of the curiosity… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity… — Joachim Trier Copy Share Image
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment,… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
“But something that never escapes me as I putter about the garden, physically and mentally: desire and curiosity inform the inevitable boundaries… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“They say the eyes are the first thing to go”—he glances meaningfully at the reading glasses—“but I say it’s curiosity. People hit… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
“Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick… — Matilde Serao Copy Share Image
Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction. — Pasquier Quesnel Copy Share Image
I don't get this,a heart can break many times but still find another reason to believe in love and love again. — Noxolo Zulu Copy Share Image
“Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there's any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life.” — Rhi Etzweiler Copy Share Image
I think society will always regard somebody who is slightly outside the norm with a certain curiosity. — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my… — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. —ANAÏS NIN” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability... — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
“Stories open doors for wonder. Those who don’t read, don’t experience the magic.” — Dina Husseini Copy Share Image
I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity. — Montserrat Caballe Copy Share Image
I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there? — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
