Curiosity Quotes

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

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

Ants are a curious race

When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.

The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

When invitation come, then I inquire just to see new place or seeing just the one sort of family, then not much interest.

I should have said Welsh has always attracted me. By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.

A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees what others do not see, but a crazy observer sees perhaps the most, his observation is more intense and more persistent, just as the senses of certain animals are sharper than those of man.

I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.

If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?

My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

All thinking begins with wondering

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.

Man by nature wants to know.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

Philosophy begins with wonder.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.