Curiosity Quotes - Page 2

And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

C.S. Lewis

It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.

Jack Finney

A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiviness is bitter or sweet.

Pema Chödrön

Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular what surrounds us; a certain relentlessness to break up our familiarities and to regard otherwise the same things; a fervor to grasp what is happening and what passes; a casualness in regard to the traditional hierarchies of the important and the essential. I dream of a new age of curiosity. We have the technical means for it; the desire is there; the things to be known are infinite; the people who can employ themselves at this task exist. Why do we suffer? From too little: from the channels that are too narrow, skimpy, quasi-monopolistic, insufficient. There is no point in adopting a protectionist attitude, to prevent ‘bad’ information from invading and suffocating the ‘good.’ Rather, we must multiply the paths and the possibility of comings and goings.

Michel Foucault

Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social skills of British politicianBenjamin Disraeli and his rival William Gladstone illustrates ... The rivalry between the two statesmen piqued the curiosity of American Jennie Jerome, admired beauty and the mother of Winston Churchill. Ms. Jerome arranged to dine with Gladstone and then with Disraeli, on consecutive evenings. Afterward, she described the difference between the two men this way: "When I left the dining room after sitting next to Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But when I sat next to Disraeli, I left feeling that I was the cleverest woman.

Marian Deegan

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...

Edward O. Wilson

The time travelers are usually adapt at "intercrossing" different fields of expertise. That's the beauty of the hobbyist: it's generally easier to mix different intellectual fields when you have a whole array of them littering your study or your garage.

Steven Johnson

She'd been mad for him as a girl, but she'd chalked that up to youthful infatuation. She'd tracked the events of his life religiously for a decade, but she'd told herself that was idle curiosity. And now... now she desired him so much she could scarcely stand, but surely that was only lust. Wasn't it?

Tessa Dare

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

John Adams

I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity

Nikolai Gogol

The author perceptively outlines what might be an underrated aspect of his subject and of many others whose public achievements are of note – a "gift for friendship". McCullough says Adams, despite his towering intellect and curmudgeonly demeanor, had a soft heart for other people and a genuine interest in their particulars.

David McCullough

Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.

Steven Johnson

If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing applies to your city, state, and country. And if you want to be relevant to the entire world, program that computer known as your brain with all kinds of information from everywhere in order to prepare yourself.

Ben Carson

Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.

Maureen Corrigan

Rather than literally burning the midnight oil, which he judged to be unhealthy, John Adams advised his son to make the most of college by developing an inquisitive outlook that would prompt him to get to know the most exceptional scholars and question them closely. "Ask them about their tutors, manner of teaching. Observe what books lie on their tables. Fall into questions of literature, science, or what you will.

David McCullough

Science is a satisfactory curiosity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Perhaps we need to separate youth from education. Education lasts forever. Youth is the time for exploration, maturation, socialization.

Jeff Jarvis

In the real world, the tests are all open book.

Jeff Jarvis

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.

Harvey Mansfield

Movies lost their appeal when people realized their real lives were more interesting.

Star Trek Enterprise

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.

Daniel J. Rice

We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious,and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney Company

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove people mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

Roger Ebert

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

Richard J. Foster

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own dilemmas and therefore to marshal the popular will to change and improve itself.

Alain de Botton

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

Richard J. Foster

Curiosity also makes a great student.

Gemma Malley

Some time curiosity kill's you but it still worth to Die for

Iraniya Naynesh

She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract from required courses, Roosevelt read widely yet managed to stand near the top of his class. The breath of his numerous interests allowed him to draw on knowledge across various disciplines, from zoology in philosophy and religion, from poetry and drama to history and politics.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Children live life as a controlled experiment.

Jennifer Senior

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.

Thomas Swick

Curiosity is the primary fuel that drives lifelong education.

Dhaval Gajera

Absence of questions is not proof of answers.

Sweety Shinde

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.

C.S. Lewis

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Jasper Fforde

Ten minutes later, I chance a second look. They say curiosity killed the cat. I wonder what that cat was looking at, and was it as interesting as this?

Sheena Hutchinson

Curiosity is my great vice. I fear you have seen through to the heart of me, and now seek to exploit my weakness

George R.R. Martin

Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.

Nicholas Dawidoff

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

Jasper Fforde

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.

David McCullough

Guyal of Sfere had been born one apart from his fellows and early proved a source of vexation for his sire. Normal in outward configuration, there existed within his mind a void that ached for nourishment. It was as if a spell had been cast upon his birth, a harassment visited on the child in a spirit of sardonic mockery, so that every occurrence, no matter how trifling, became a source of wonder and amazement. Even as young as four he was expounding such inquiries as: ‘Why do squares have more sides than triangles?’‘How will we see when the sun goes dark?’‘Do flowers grow under the ocean?’‘Do stars hiss and sizzle when rain comes by night?

Jack Vance

Replace Fear of Radiation with Curiosity

Steven Magee

Nature answers every question.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.

David Halberstam

Remind yourself daily to spend more time being interested then interesting.

Jason Jennings

he was almost joyously what he had always been, a lot of gee whiz, it was all new and fresh even when surely he had seen much of it before, and it was as if he took delight in not having been changed externally by all that he had seen.

David Halberstam

It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.

David Halberstam

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.

Robert A. Caro

Goldwater's approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes.

Rick Perlstein

Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir.

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

Richard Brookhiser

Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward.

Debasish Mridha

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