Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the… — Douglas Coupland
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of… — Bruce Springsteen
The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their… — Tina Yothers
It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without such… — Frederick Seitz
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of… — Hermann Hesse
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. — Mason Cooley
I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying… — John Archibald Wheeler
O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources… — Charles Spurgeon
The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind… — Margaret J. Wheatley
The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple… — Denton Cooley
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and… — Timothy Gowers
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it. — John F. Kennedy
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life. — Jules Verne
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the… — Arthur C. Clarke
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. — Robert Staughton Lynd
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a… — Isaac Asimov
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.… — Will Durant
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others.… — Archibald MacLeish
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid. — Mark Helprin
My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts,… — Hayden Carruth
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor
He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to… — Laird Barron

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