Curiosity Quotes

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone? - Tiffany Aching in

Terry Pratchett

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

Richard Whately

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

James Russell Lowell

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Yiddish Proverb

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

Jeremy Taylor

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Luis Bunuel

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

George Eliot, Middlemarch

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

William Lyon Phelps

That low vice, curiosity!

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Source Unknown

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.

Sir William Watson

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.

Desmond Morris

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

Caroline Wozniacki

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Victor Hugo

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others

Oscar Wilde

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson