Curiosity Quotes

  • A man should go on living — if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~ Yiddish Proverb
  • A man should stay alive if only out of curiosity. ~ Yiddish Proverb
  • Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ~ Marie Curie
  • Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ~ Alistair Cooke
  • Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. ~ Leo Burnett
  • Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis. ~ Samuel Alexander
  • Curiosity doesn’t matter anymore. These days people don’t want to be transported to emotional territories where they don’t know how to react. ~ Hector Babenko
  • Curiosity has its own reason for existence. ~ Albert Einstein
  • Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. ~ John Locke
  • Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ~ Richard Whately
  • Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. ~ Alistair Cooke
  • Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. ~ Victor Hugo
  • Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. ~ Bryant H. McGill
  • Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit. ~ Jeremy Taylor
  • Curiosity is the key to creativity. ~ Akio Morita
  • Curiosity is the lust of the mind. ~ Thomas Hobbes
  • Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. ~ Freya Stark
  • Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. ~ William A. Ward
  • Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. ~ Samuel Johnson
  • Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect. ~ Stephen Wright
  • Curiosity killed the cat. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~ James Stephens
  • Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. ~ Mary McCarthy
  • First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
  • Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given. ~ Clarice Lispector
  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~ Albert Einstein
  • Love is three quarters curiosity. ~ Giacomo Casanova
  • Man should stay alive if only out of curiosity. ~ Yiddish Proverb
  • Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~ Graham Greene
  • My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ~ Malcolm X
  • Never lose a holy curiosity. ~ Albert Einstein
  • Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment. ~ Charles Lamb
  • One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. ~ William Lyon Phelps
  • Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. ~ Evelyn Waugh
  • People die when curiosity goes. ~ Graham Swift
  • Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. ~ Linus Pauling
  • The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Ellen Parr
  • The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity. ~ Edmund Burke
  • The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. ~ Anatole France
  • The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ~ Albert Einstein
  • The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ~ Winwood W. Reade
  • The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. ~ Irving Langmuir
  • The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent. ~ Sir William Watson
  • We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events. ~ Syrus Publilius Syrus
  • What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear. ~ Samuel Richardson
  • When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. ~ Martha Beck
  • When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. ~ Walt Disney
  • Where curiosity is not the purveyor, detraction will soon be starved. ~ Latin Proverb
  • You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~ Author Unknown
  • You know what a woman’s curiosity is. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in. ~ Ethel Barrymore
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