Curious Quotes

911 Curious quotes by 707 unique authors

It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination.… — Stephen Hawking
It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined. — Arundhati Roy
What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable. — Roger Ebert
He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me,… — David Nicholls
I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't… — Douglas Coupland
Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word. — Cornelia Funke
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic… — Walter Isaacson
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of… — C.S. Lewis
Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives… — Louise Erdrich
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were… — Albert Einstein
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to… — Oscar Wilde
Fish gathered to look at us - a school of baracudas, some curious marines. SCRAM! I told them. They swam off, but I could tell… — Rick Riordan
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a… — Carson McCullers
I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best. — Michael J. Fox
Have any of you taken a look out at Greece in the last, say, hour or so? (Hermes) What? Are they reacting to the fact… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She… — Oscar Wilde
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the… — Jodi Picoult
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge… — Arthur Conan Doyle
My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They… — Mary E. Pearson
To be wise is to be eternally curious. — Frederick Buechner
Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look… — Daniel Handler
My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe… — Thomas Mann

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