Curiosity Quotes

1094 quotes by 811 authors

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left… — Russell Baker
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. — Franklin P. Adams
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little… — Bruce Barton
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and… — Joseph Addison
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. — Martha Beck
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. — Robert Benchley
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether… — Isaiah Berlin
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of… — Ambrose Bierce
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people… — Andrea Bocelli
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. — Leo Burnett
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. — John Burroughs
I have survivor's curiosity, I guess. — George H. W. Bush
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're… — A. S. Byatt
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. — Joseph Campbell
Love is three quarters curiosity. — Giacomo Casanova
My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business. — Kim Cattrall
The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity, and with no possibility of… — Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh

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