Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed! — C J Cherryh
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. — Oscar Wilde
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind… — C.S. Lewis
Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all… — Saul Alinsky
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. — Harry S. Truman
Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds. — Woody Allen
The people in the world, and the objects in it, and the world as a whole, are not absolute things, but on the contrary, are… — Wallace Stevens
Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic. — Leif Enger
That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time. — Elaine Dundy
Truth is, I think naked men are kind of strange looking what with their doodles and ding-dong hanging loose like they do. Nevertheless, there's the… — Janet Evanovich
It's not a silly question if you can't answer it. — Jostein Gaarder
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. — Vladimir Nabokov
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open… — Cornelia Funke
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The… — Paul Rand
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of… — Vladimir Nabokov
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left… — Thomas Pynchon
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is… — Norman Mailer
With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these… — Chuck Palahniuk
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the… — Roberto Bolano
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it,… — Mortimer Adler
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston—… — George Orwell
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. — Leo Rosten
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have… — Daniel Dennett

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