Curiosity Quotes

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

George Eliot

Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?

Lionel Suggs

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

Thomas Hughes

Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed."I grinned. "Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman.

Susan Dennard

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Susan Sontag

Are you missing the library again?" Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room.Kendra turned to face her brother. "You caught me," she congratulated him. "I'm reading.""I bet the librarians back home are panicking. Summer vacation, and no Kendra Sorenson to keep them in business. Have they been sending you letters?""Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment."Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?""I bet you'll tell me."" 'If you're reading this, you are one.' "You're a riot." Kendra turned back to the journal, flipping to a random page.Seth took a seat on his bed across from her. "Kendra, seriously, I can sort of see reading a cool book for fun, but dusty old journals? Really? Has anybody told you there are magical creatures out there?" He pointed out the window."Has anybody told you some of those creatures can eat you?" Kendra responded. "I'm not reading these just for fun. They have good info.""like what? Patton and Lena smooching?"Kendra rolled her eyes. "I'm not telling. You'll end up in a tar pit.""There's a tar pit?" he said, perking up. "Where?

Brandon Mull

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

Jim Butcher

That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.

Marni Bates

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

Laird Barron

A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

Jim Elliot

Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly and political affairs: he is a snoop and a voyeur; he comments and classifies; his taxonomic impulse makes the novel appear to be a vast compendium, replete with burrowing wasps and bedsteads, military strategies, stereoscopes, asparagus and aeroplanes.

Adam A. Watt

We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

Margaret Atwood

but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

Judy Blume

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

Orson Scott Card

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist.

Doris Lessing

The temptationTo take the precious things we have apartTo see how they workMust be resisted for they never fit together

Billy Bragg

This disease of curiosity.

Augustine of Hippo

He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed.

Margaret Atwood

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

Pat Conroy

The path between faith and understanding demands both obedience and inquiry. If Christianity is true, if it goes to the center of the universe and explains every stone and leaf the way we Christians think, then the more we search it out and explore it the more reasons we will have to be confident in that truth.

Matthew Lee Anderson

In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous.

Toni Morrison

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

John le Carré

Intelligence comes with hard work and curiosity for the unknown.

Roberto Llamas

Eva’s only fault has been the one of wanting to know more, to experiment and search with her own sources the laws of the Universe, of her own body and to refuse the teachings from “above”. Eva, basically, represents the curiosity of science against the passive acceptance that belongs to faith.

Margherita Hack

I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and the scientist is trying to elucidate the hidden order in our reality. And that impulse is what the scientist shares with the mystic. The impulse to get to the bottom of things. To know how the world really works. To know the nature of things.

Michael Crichton

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

Harold Nicolson

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

Dave Eggers

You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

You are not a human being if you don't have a curiosity.

Anurag Tomar

Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.

Susan Dennard

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to literature.

Jon Meacham

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and doesn't eat anything more than grass as far as I know, to live all the summer. Not an interesting life perhaps, but a very peaceful one.

Agatha Christie

For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my ears and in my small body.

Dee-Williams

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.

Carew Papritz

The ability to ask questions is a virtue and a trait of a free thinker.

Sabina Nore

Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher – a body of knowledge that she will dispense in chunks and that they have to swallow and digest.

John Countryman

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Dee Henderson

...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)

Valerio Varesi

Editors are licensed to be curious.

William Zinsser

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

Pat Conroy

I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than “What's up?

Stephen Chbosky

Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.

Hal B. Gregersen

Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of the unknown.

Eli Pariser

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

Françoise Sagan

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...

Thomas Hardy

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

Torsten Wiesel

I think I'm more curious than I used to be - curious about why people live like they do and how they make sense of their time... Do they see how the sun has made it like a champion around the world overnight, and that all day today we get another chance to be brave, to exercise our humanity with boldness and deft precision?

Dee-Williams

For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and savoring teachers who seemed to be ambassadors from other, richer, writer worlds. Jefferson believed Williamsburg "the finest school of manners and morals that ever existed in America.

Jon Meacham

More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which is running with enormous speed.

Baris Gencel

Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?

Brian Evenson

One of the many drawbacks of this "I teach what I am" approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack.

Maureen Corrigan

Curiosity is the ultimate power tool.

Roy Underhill

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

Mark Van Doren

Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections.

Baris Gencel

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