Curiosity Quotes
-
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
-
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
-
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Sydney J. Harris
-
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Hermann von Helmholtz
-
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
Bryant H. McGill
-
The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.
Steve Jobs
-
Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
Willis R. Whitney
-
Humble Inquiry is the skill and the art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not already know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person.
Edgar Schein
-
Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
Eugene O'Neill
-
There's a curiosity about what magazine editors do, the behind-the-curtain experience.
Eva Chen
-
Humble Inquiry is the fine art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not already know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person.
Edgar Schein
-
The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.
Michael Eric Dyson
-
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
-
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
-
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Harry Lorayne
-
You do what you like because you just follow your curiosity, and you are happy when you find new things about nature, about how things work around us and inside us.
Erwin Neher
-
Around here we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Brian Houston
-
Curiosity killed the cat.
Eugene O'Neill
-
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
William Faulkner
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
-
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
Gertrude Atherton