Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic… — Massimo Pigliucci
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting,… — Nicolas Bouvier
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass. — Michael J. Fox
André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about life, and a precise… — Brassai
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. — Diane Sawyer
You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity. — Colin Powell
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity. — Ronald Reagan
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's… — Robert Rauschenberg
Satisfying curiosity ranks No. 2 in my book behind conquering a fear. — Scott Carpenter
When we are children, we have a tranquil acceptance of mystery which is driven out of us later on, by curiosity and education and experience.… — Susan Cooper
My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat. — Studs Terkel
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. — John Cage
And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some… — Elvis Costello
There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn… — William Herbert Sheldon
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. — W. Edwards Deming
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always… — E. M. Forster
The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are… — Pema Chodron
Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested… — William Redington Hewlett
My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems. — Akio Morita
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with… — Lawrence Durrell
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to… — Tom Peters
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on. — Isaac Asimov
Heaven is satisfied curiosity. — Paola Antonelli

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