Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Verne

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

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.

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.

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.

Irving Langmuir

Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.

Irving Langmuir

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

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.

Quentin Crisp

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

Plutarch

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

Philo

Learning is by nature, curiosity.

Philo

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Elaine Dundy

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

John Byrne

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

Larry King

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

Lewis Carroll

burning with curiosity

Pema Chodron

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

Pema Chodron

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

Haruki Murakami

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

John Dryden

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

Judy Blume

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

Mark Parker

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

Paul Berg

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Rachel McAdams

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

Joe Murray

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.