Curiosity Quote by Robert Wright

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

“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our…

— Pema Chödrön

“Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.”

— Angela Carter

Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable…

— Thomas Hobbes

“Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and…

— Charles Dickens

“Curiosity is a worthwhile virtue than certainty. While the former leads to grow, the latter muzzles your growth and results in stagnation...”

— Assegid Habtewold

“Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.”

— S. Leonard Rubinstein

“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

“Curiosity is a restless propensity and often does but hurry us forward the more irresistably, the greater is the danger that attends its indulgence.”

— Anonymous

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length…

— Washington Irving

“Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.”

— Victoria Schwab

Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

— Rose Wilder Lane