Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Attenborough

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

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.

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.

Alistair Cooke

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Aphra Behn

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

Edmund Burke

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

David Hume

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person

Clarice Lispector

Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.

Clarence Day

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Jamie Hyneman

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

David McCullough

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

Chip Conley

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

William Shakespeare

Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

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.

Charles Lyell

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

We've already seen what (Clark) looks like. The curiosity factor is gone.

Kitty Kelley

There's a curiosity factor, but not a fascination like there used to be.

Don Cheadle

I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie.

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.

Gerard Butler

If you just tell the story of what the story's about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isn't. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.

Charlene Li

If you come to our site, you're going to get money, ... You can't get a better motivation than that. My curiosity is piqued.

J. I. Packer

God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.

James Morrow

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but lack of curiosity would have killed thousands