Famous Quotes & Sayings

Curiosity is a path that indefinitely leads to sins

William Maxwell

The view after 70 is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters.

David McCullough

What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress." ()

Kim Cattrall

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

Kathleen Norris

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

Jules Verne

I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.

It's kind of always been a curiosity for the scientists.

Georgette Heyer

You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

James C. Collins

I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.

Jeremy Taylor

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

Erno Rubik

I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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.

Francoise Sagan

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

Fernando Pessoa

My curiosity sister of larks.

Eve Arnold

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

Eve Arnold

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

Henry Miller

My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

There's a real sense of curiosity about what is being proposed. If one is to be constructed, let's move it forward.

A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.

They have an emotional connection. It's not just out of curiosity or politeness. People feel passionate.

There's a lot of curiosity about him. We're hearing so much about him lately, that we wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

George H. W. Bush

I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.

Buzz Aldrin

We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

Joseph Joubert

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

Moliere

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

Ian Mcewan

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

Ian Hacking

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Horace

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. [Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]

He?s got a rare combination of interest, curiosity and talent. And humility.

Hunter S. Thompson

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.