Curiosity Quotes

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

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

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

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

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

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

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.