Curiosity Quotes

Quotations about Curiosity

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

The future belongs to the curious. The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it and turn it inside out. ~ Saying

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

There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~ James Stephens

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Dorothy Parker

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. ~ James Harvey Robinson

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

Curiosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born with. ~ John Locke

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~ Albert Einstein

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ~ Arnold Edinborough

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~ Albert Einstein

Curiosity is looking over other people's affairs, and over-looking our own. ~ H. L. Wayland

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home. ~ Jeanette Winterson

The over curious are not over wise. ~ Philip Massinger

Curiosity is the forerunner of discovery. ~ Duke

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him. ~ John Caspar Lavater

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Curiosity is scandal's microscope. ~ P. Fletcher

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make. ~ Abraham Cowley

I loathe that low vice--curiosity. ~ George Gordon Noel Byron

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction. ~ Pasquier Quesnel

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ~ Archbishop Richard Whately

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. ~ Albert Einstein

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person. ~ David Hume

A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much. ~ Evan Esar

Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount? ~ St. Augustine

Curiosity is a feeling which causes us not to be content with the beauty and fragrance of the flower, but which prompts us to look under the rose. ~ Mrs. Inchbald

Curiosity is the engine of achievement. ~ Ken Robinson

Curiosity is a little more than another name for hope. ~ A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare

The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. ~ Albert Einstein

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ~ Henry Clay

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. ~ S. Leonard Rubinstein

Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. ~ Sudie Back

Curiosity has its own reason for existence. ~ Albert Einstein

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind. ~ Michel De Montaigne

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

Curiosity, is a movement of the soul towards Truth, which it seeks to assimilate by Knowledge. It is the first step in the direction of Certainty. ~ Sabine Baring-Gould

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. ~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. ~ Victor Hugo

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

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. ~ Samuel Johnson

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. ~ Victoria Schwab

Curiosity is a call from knowledge. ~ Toba Beta

If curiosities were abundant they would not be curiosities. ~ W. Stukeley

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. ~

Curiosity has lost more young girls than love. ~ Madame Marie Madeleine Puisieux

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. ~ St. Augustine