Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to… — E E Cummings
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process;… — Gary Hamel
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt. — Dorothy Parker
The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save… — Vladimir Nabokov
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life. — Rachel Carson
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.… — Walt Disney
Curiouser and curiouser. — Lewis Carroll
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into… — Anais Nin
Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the… — Tamora Pierce
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. — Oscar Wilde
Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints… — Louisa May Alcott
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions. — Tom Robbins
That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what… — Richard Bach
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. — Henry James
I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any… — Dan Rather
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too… — Henri Matisse
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. — Philip Jose Farmer
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through this atmosphere of torrid splendor moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on… — Edith Wharton
If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very… — Bill Gates
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do… — Oscar Wilde
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things,… — Daniel Handler
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. — Harper Lee

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