Curiosity Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in knowing what…

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids…

— Michel de Montaigne

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then…

— Alain de Botton

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

— Blaise Pascal

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

— Brian Grazer

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is…

— Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

— Blaise Pascal

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has…

— Benjamin Franklin

“[77] Pride. Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other words, we…

— Blaise Pascal

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly…

— E. M. Forster

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

— Alan Watts

“Of all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind, and in…

— Thomas Paine