Curiosity Quotes
-
Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
Oliver E. Williamson
-
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings
-
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Vincent Canby
-
When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
Irvin D. Yalom
-
I can wait: waiting and patience mean nothing to the eternal. I gave the woman the greatest of gifts: curiosity. By that her seed has been saved from my wrath; for I also am curious; and I have waited always to see what they will do tomorrow.
George Bernard Shaw
-
Replace judgment with curiosity.
Lynn Nottage
-
As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
R. J. Cutler
-
My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
Baruj Benacerraf
-
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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-
Many dancers are content with the repertoire they're given. Others are dissatisfied but don't know why. Then there are a few like me that are curious and grab at everything. Can that curiosity thrive in the ballet world, or should it exist elsewhere? That's the eternal question.
David Hallberg
-
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
Ian Hacking
-
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
-
I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
Fernando Botero
-
Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
Caitlin Doughty
-
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.
Alfred Einstein
-
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
Marie Stopes
-
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
Abraham Flexner
-
I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.
Carly Rae Jepsen
-
As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
Oscar Wilde
-
People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
-
In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
Walt Mossberg
-
In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.
Darell Hammond
-
It came to a point where there was that curiosity factor: Was he going to hit 80? I'm sure it went through his head.
Phil Jackson