Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative… — Samuel Johnson
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. — Samuel Johnson
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only… — Samuel Johnson
But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite… — Samuel Johnson
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold… — Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief. — Steve Pavlina
And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing.… — Samuel Beckett
While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often… — Sigurd F. Olson
I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church… — Eric Clapton
I am not myself; I am the potential of myself. — Anna Deavere Smith
To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only. — Richard P. Feynman
...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing. — Joao Magueijo
Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I. — Unknown Author
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. — Vincent Canby
. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand teacheth them to… — Thomas Browne
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been… — Steven Weinberg
As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. — Robert Burns
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness. — Robert Browning
We're different, we're the same. You thought you'd never find a word to say to a woman who didn't fly airplanes. I couldn't imagine myself… — Richard Bach
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And… — James Whitcomb Riley
At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec… — Horace Walpole
An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do. — Hannah Whitall Smith
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all. — George Bernard Shaw
An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity… — Derek Bok

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