Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess. — Yukio Mishima
Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom. — Francoise Sagan
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within.… — Ramana Maharshi
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity, — Mario Testino
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day. — Charlie Munger
I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness… — Scott Turow
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer
Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that… — Giacomo Casanova
The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. — Frans de Waal
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so… — Agnes de Mille
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic… — William Winwood Reade
I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm. — Erno Rubik
The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst… — Vartan Gregorian
It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through… — Robert B. Laughlin
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history… — Gerald Brenan
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties die off somehow… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The… — Norma Kamali
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to… — William Maxwell
This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each… — Maria Popova
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit,… — Kurt Hahn
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. — Gene Cernan
It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can… — Jack Finney
The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christ’s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable… — Edmund Clowney
Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining… — Steven Johnson

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