Quotes about curiosity

"The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge."

Apocrypha on curiosity   

"You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in."

Barrymore, Ethel on curiosity
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"Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand."

Bible on curiosity   

"Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I."

Browning, Robert on curiosity   

"All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence."

Bunuel, Luis on curiosity   

"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity."

Burke, Edmund on curiosity   

"That low vice, curiosity!"

Byron, Lord on curiosity   

"It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent."

Cicero, Marcus T. on curiosity   

"Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will."

Cooke, Alistair on curiosity
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"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts."

Day, Clarence on curiosity   

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason 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 merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity."

Einstein, Albert on curiosity
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"Never lose a holy curiosity."

Einstein, Albert on curiosity
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"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on curiosity
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"Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom."

Forster, Edward M. on curiosity   

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

France, Anatole on curiosity
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"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery."

Hugo, Victor on curiosity
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"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."

Johnson, Samuel on curiosity
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"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."

Johnson, Samuel on curiosity
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"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."

Mccarthy, Mary on curiosity   

"We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."

Morris, Desmond on curiosity
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"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar."

Paley, Grace on curiosity   

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute."

Phelps, William Lyon on curiosity   

"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."

Pope, Alexander on curiosity   

"A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity."

Proverb, Yiddish on curiosity
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"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."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on curiosity
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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Sagan, Carl Edward on curiosity   

"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on curiosity   

"Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit."

Taylor, Jeremy on curiosity   

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization."

Trevelyan, G. M. on curiosity   

"I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie."

Turlington, Christy on curiosity   

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives"

Unknown, Source on curiosity
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"The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent."

Watson, Sir William on curiosity   

"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

Whately, Richard on curiosity