Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The… — John Dryden
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be… — Abraham Flexner
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to… — Oliver Goldsmith
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. — Anatole France
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. — Anatole France
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. — Erich Fromm
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. — Robert Frost
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. — Graham Greene
I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child. — Daphne Guinness
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. — Christopher Columbus
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their… — Alistair Cooke
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies. — Elvis Costello
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I'm strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying 'I don't agree' and… — Penelope Cruz
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. — Marie Curie
Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity. — Rachel Cusk
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. — E E Cummings
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. — Charles Darwin
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed,… — Richard Dawkins
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. — Richard Dawkins
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. — Clarence Day
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. — Walt Disney

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