Curiosity Quotes

1094 Curiosity quotes by 779 unique authors

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. — Marie Stopes
Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways. — William Godwin
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. — Augustus William Hare
A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions. — Frederick Seitz
Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who… — Seth Godin
So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're… — Steve Rubel
It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens… — Tom Peters
What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a… — Julius Sumner Miller
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline. — Saint Augustine
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous. — Plato
God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large… — John Mason Brown
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity. — Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure… — Blaise Pascal
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation… — Thomas Hobbes
That low vice, curiosity! — Lord Byron
So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful. — Goldie Hawn
I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward. — Rachel McAdams
Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which my salon of… — Rembrandt Peale
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is… — Alfred North Whitehead
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between… — Charles Lyell
Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it… — Otto Robert Frisch
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our… — Oliver Goldsmith
Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. — Joseph Joubert

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