Curiosity Quotes

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

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

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.

People die when curiosity goes.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

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.

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.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

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

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

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

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

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