Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clara Bow

I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

Christopher Nolan

You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity

Amos Oz

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

Anna Deavere Smith

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

Alice Walker

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

Douglas William Jerrold

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

Dorothy Day

Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

Cornelia Funke

When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.

David Lodge

to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing

David Hare

The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Curtis Sittenfeld

She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

Dave Eggers

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

Deepak Chopra

Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.

Fortunately, Zeta is more of a curiosity than a life-threatening event.

William Shakespeare

Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

Beck

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

Carrie Brownstein

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

John Cornyn

Just because we are curious does not mean that our curiosity should be satisfied,

I saw them and my curiosity was satisfied. They are not being given special treatment.

It is not suited either to all kids or all parents. It requires students with considerable curiosity and independence, who come up with and get interested in questions and can sustain some interest in them.

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Benny Carter

I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.

Petrarch

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

Bertrand Russell

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

Mark Twain

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

John Cage

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

John Dos Passos

Curiosity urges you on-driving force.

John Aubrey

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!

Caroline Kennedy

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Gabrielle Zevin

But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?

Freya Stark

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.