Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Curiosity

Curiosity

As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.--Mahlon Hoagland (Toward a Habit of Truth)
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.--Marie Curie
Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common--inquisitiveness.--Edwin Bulwar-Lytton
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.--Clarence Day
Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere."--Will Durant
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.--Ellen Parr
Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.--Alistar Cooke
Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.--Leonard Rubenstein
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.--Richard Whately
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.--Samuel Johnson (The Rambler, Aug. 24, 1751)
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.--Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification.--Sarah Scott (A Description of Millenium Hall)
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.--Freya Stark (Over the Rim of the World by Morehead)
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.--William Arthur Ward
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.--Harry Lorayne (Secrets of Mind Power)
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.--James Stephens
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.--Jeanette Winterson (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit)
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.--G. M. Trevelyan (English Social History)
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.--Carl Sagan (Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science)
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. The fatal thing is the rejection. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.--Eleanor Roosevelt
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.--Albert Einstein (The Evolution of Physics)
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.--Eleanor Roosevelt
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.--I. I. Ravi (in Experiencing Science by Bernstein)
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.--Edmund Burke
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.--William Lyon Phelps
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything except what is worth knowing.--Oscar Wilde ("The Soul of Men Under Socialism" Fortnightly Review, Feb. 1891)
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.--Robert Lynd
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.--La Rochefoucauld (Maxims)
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.--Ernest Dimnet
When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Aphorisms)
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.--Mary Catherine Bateson (With a Daughter's Eye)
You now what a woman's curiosity is. Almost as great as a man's!--Oscar Wilde