Curiosity Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curiosity People Wisdom Worthiness
The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It… — Tharman Shanmugaratnam Copy Share Image
Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I am not… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image