Curiosity Quotes
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A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.
Herodotus
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What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do? Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be... Thank heavens for the arousing qualities of zest, intelligence, wit, curiosity, sweetness, passion, talent and grace.
Diane Ackerman
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Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
William Faulkner
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The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.
Vladimir Nabokov
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That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity.
Beryl Markham
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Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
Chip R. Bell
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Curiosity began my journey, which led to regret, which brings me always to wonder and dedication.
Christopher Cokinos
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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.
Helen Keller
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If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.
Bill Gates
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Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.
Simon Sinek
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You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
Seth Godin
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It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
Sofia Villani Scicolone
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There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
Richard Feynman
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Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Harry Lorayne
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For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
Sara Sheridan
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Sydney J. Harris
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While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.
Dawoud Bey
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Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.
Meredith Monk
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Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Eugene O'Neill
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There's a curiosity about what magazine editors do, the behind-the-curtain experience.
Eva Chen
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What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
Nina Arianda
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What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.
William Hazlitt