Confidence Quote by Alain de Botton

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly…

— E. M. Forster

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

— Blaise Pascal

There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in knowing what…

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

— Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements…

— Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

— Richard Whately

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

— Blaise Pascal

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

— Tom Robbins

curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

— Francoise Sagan

Curiosity doesn't matter any more. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react.

— Hector Babenko

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

— Brian Grazer

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

— John Ruskin