Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to… — Aaron Allston
Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we… — Carl Sagan
My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once. — Henry Miller
But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last,… — Evelyn Waugh
Any other iron on you?” he asked impatiently. “Just my tongue stud.” His look was a mixture of curiosity and horror. “I’m kidding, you idiot.… — Kiersten White
I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity,… — Ilona Andrews
I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air. — Lisa Kleypas
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy — Carl Sagan
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates… — Albert Einstein
there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious,… — Stephen Fry
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. — Anais Nin
burning with curiosity — Lewis Carroll
It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in… — Jean Webster
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side? — George R. R. Martin
Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love.… — Graham Swift
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances… — Paul Theroux
A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon… — Winston Churchill
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. — Saint Augustine
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it… — Leo Tolstoy
Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we… — Alanis Morissette
There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes. — Kurt Vonnegut
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room… — Gloria Steinem
She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I… — Rachel Vincent

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