Curiosity Quotes
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.
Sebastian Junger
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
Waris Ahluwalia
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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.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
Lara St. John
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It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.
May-Britt Moser
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
Cameron Winklevoss
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
Samuel Alexander
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
H. G. Bissinger
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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As a leader, I believe it's important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at 'Frontline' with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.
Raney Aronson-Rath
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Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
Rachel Cusk
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Abraham Cowley
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I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.
Narciso Rodriguez
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Vincent Canby
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
Randy Schekman
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People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'
Peter Graves
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir
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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.
Adam Savage
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
Oliver E. Williamson
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And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.
Jack London
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
Ian Hacking