--- title: "9 Curious Quotes By Walt Whitman" description: "9 Curious quotes by Walt Whitman. Plus more from Walt Whitman and more Curious sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/walt-whitman-265_curiosity_be-curious-not-judgmental-3172268_3172268.png" --- > [Be curious, not judgmental.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/be-curious-not-judgmental/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/walt-whitman-265_curiosity_be-curious-not-judgmental-3172268_3172268.png) > [What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/what-beauty-there-is-in-words-what-a-lurking-curious-charm-in-the/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19a/walt-whitman-265_beauty_what-beauty-there-is-in-words-what-a-lur_317844.png) > [Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/praised-be-the-fathomless-universe-for-life-and-joy-and-for-objects/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/walt-whitman-265_curious_praised-be-the-fathomless-universe-for-l_2380538.png) > [I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-say-to-mankind-be-not-curious-about-god-for-i-who-am-curious-about/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/372/walt-whitman-265_curious_i-say-to-mankind-be-not-curious-about-go_1816481.png) > [What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/what-stays-with-you-latest-and-deepest-of-curious-panics-of-hard/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/371/walt-whitman-265_curious_what-stays-with-you-latest-and-deepest-o_1742452.png) > [Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/apart-from-the-pulling-and-hauling-stands-what-i-am-stands-amused/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24a/walt-whitman-265_arms_apart-from-the-pulling-and-hauling-stand_2096271.png) > [I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-have-perceiv-d-that-to-be-with-those-i-like-is-enough-to-stop-in/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c3/walt-whitman-265_arms_i-have-perceiv-d-that-to-be-with-those-i_1347172.png) > [To the garden of the world anew descending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/to-the-garden-of-the-world-anew-descending-potent-mates-daughters/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c54/walt-whitman-265_amorous_to-the-garden-of-the-world-anew-descendi_939334.jpg) > [Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/note-to-day-an-instructive-curious-spectacle-and-conflict-science/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc0/walt-whitman-265_age_note-to-day-an-instructive-curious-spect_1655174.png) ## Other authors on Curious ## More by Walt Whitman > [O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/o-lands-o-all-so-dear-to-me-what-you-are-i-become-part-of-that/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [“Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/each-of-us-inevitable-each-of-us-limitless-each-of-us-with-his-or-her/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/comerado-this-is-no-book-who-touches-this-touches-a-man-is-it-night/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-have-sometimes-thought-that-the-laws-ought-not-to-punish-those/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/oh-while-i-live-to-be-the-ruler-of-life-not-a-slave-to-meet-life-as-a/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [“it makes such difference where you read”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/it-makes-such-difference-where-you-read/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/wisdom-is-not-finally-tested-in-the-schools-wisdom-cannot-be-pass-d/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/strange-is-it-not-that-battles-martyrs-blood-even-assassination/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-think-i-could-always-live-with-animals-the-more-you-re-around/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/i-am-the-poet-of-the-body-and-i-am-the-poet-of-the-soul-the-pleasures/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/so-here-i-sit-in-the-early-candle-light-of-old-age-i-and-my-book/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/re-examine-all-you-have-been-told-dismiss-what-insults-your-soul/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/this-is-what-you-shall-do-love-the-earth-and-sun-and-animals-despise/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/each-of-us-inevitable-each-of-us-limitless-each-of-us-with-his-or-her-2/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) > [Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/silence-what-can-new-york-noisy-roaring-rumbling-tumbling-bustling/) [Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-whitman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/curious/walt-whitman/#itemlist", "name": "9 Curious Quotes By Walt Whitman", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Be curious, not judgmental.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Walt Whitman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/be-curious-not-judgmental/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/walt-whitman-265_curiosity_be-curious-not-judgmental-3172268_3172268.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/walt-whitman-265_curiosity_be-curious-not-judgmental-3172268_3172268.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/walt-whitman-265_curiosity_be-curious-not-judgmental-3172268_3172268.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Be curious, not judgmental.” — Walt Whitman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Walt Whitman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/what-beauty-there-is-in-words-what-a-lurking-curious-charm-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19a/walt-whitman-265_beauty_what-beauty-there-is-in-words-what-a-lur_317844.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19a/walt-whitman-265_beauty_what-beauty-there-is-in-words-what-a-lur_317844.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19a/walt-whitman-265_beauty_what-beauty-there-is-in-words-what-a-lur_317844.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.” — Walt Whitman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Walt Whitman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-whitman/praised-be-the-fathomless-universe-for-life-and-joy-and-for-objects/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/walt-whitman-265_curious_praised-be-the-fathomless-universe-for-l_2380538.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/walt-whitman-265_curious_praised-be-the-fathomless-universe-for-l_2380538.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/990/walt-whitman-265_curious_praised-be-the-fathomless-universe-for-l_2380538.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.” — Walt Whitman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. 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