Curiosity Quotes
-
Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.
-
There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
-
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
-
One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.
-
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
-
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
-
Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.
-
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.
-
In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.
-
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-
Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
-
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
-
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
-
Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.
-
The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.
-
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
-
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
-
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
-
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
-
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
-
Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.
-
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labour of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
-
Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.
-
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
