Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. — Albert Einstein
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd… — Janet Fitch
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is… — Steven Pinker
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he… — Oswald Chambers
Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long… — Haruki Murakami
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved,… — Bernard Beckett
Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten. — Hunter S. Thompson
Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,… — Clive Barker
It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know. — Susanna Clarke
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. — Nancy Willard
Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph — Studs Terkel
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark. — Anatole France
It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the… — Jeanne DuPrau
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing,… — George Saunders
Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it. — Ally Carter
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes… — Lawrence Durrell
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure… — Robert A. Heinlein
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
You see, but you do not observe. — Arthur Conan Doyle
In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy,… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep… — Cassandra Clare

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