Curiosity Quotes

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

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

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.

People die when curiosity goes.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

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.

Love is three quarters curiosity.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.