Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
What is fright by night is curiosity by day. — Victor Hugo
And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back? — Stephen King
Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate… — Robertson Davies
I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go… — Haruki Murakami
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices, the battering events… — Dean Koontz
For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been… — Bill Watterson
I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a… — Laurie R. King
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of… — Umberto Eco
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and… — Sydney J. Harris
Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the… — Susanna Clarke
Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity. — Christopher Fowler
Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king. — Kim Harrison
I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion;… — Henry Miller
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and… — Tom Hiddleston
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from… — David Lodge
Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy… — Kristin Cashore
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear. — Haruki Murakami
I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both… — Arundhati Roy
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself. — Laird Barron
When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And… — Mary Oliver
Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity. — Tim LaHaye
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not… — Marina Warner

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