Curiosity
- Ambition and curiosity are the two scourges of the soul: the latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything; the former prevents our leaving anything in doubt or undecided.--Montaigne (Essays, 1580)
- Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.--Walt Disney Company
- 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
- Blessed are the curious. Blessed are those who do not rely upon blind faith, who do not settle for half-truths. Blessed are those who pry and poke and snoop and explore. Blessed are those who question doctrine, who doubt, who love truth more than conformity.--Philip Gulley ("Blessed Are the Curious")
- Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common--inquisitiveness.--Edwin Bulwar-Lytton
- Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.--John Bradshaw
- A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.--Caroline Norton
- 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 about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.-–Leo Burnett
- 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 in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.--John Locke
- 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 very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.--Arnold Edinborough
- 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 needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.--Stella Benson (I Pose)
- 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)
- Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.--Edmund Burke
- The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.--Anatole France
- 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
- Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.--Tony Schwartz
- One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.--William Lyon Phelps
- One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life
Either about God's secrets or one's wife.--Chaucer (Canterbury Tales)
- Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.--Eugene S. Wilson
- 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)
- Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.--Linus Pauling
- A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.--Smiley Blanton
- She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.--Henry James (The Portrait of a Lady)
- 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)
- We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.--e. e. cummings
- 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)
- Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?--George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)
- 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
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