Curiosity Quotes

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

John Glenn

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Alistair Cooke

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.

E. M. Forster

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

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Fawn M. Brodie

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.

Alistair Cooke

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

Stephen King

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

Christy Turlington

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

Robert Browning

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last

Samuel Johnson

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Edmund Burke

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

Smiley Blanton

If you can approach the world

Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the

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

Edmund Burke

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Francis Beaumont

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

G. M. Trevelyan

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 every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

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

Clarence Day

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, Solomon in All His