Quotes about Curiosity

“That low vice, curiosity!”

“Never lose a holy curiosity.”

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”

“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”

“Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.”

“Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.”

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

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

“The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.”

“The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.”

“One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.”

“Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.”

“Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.”

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”

“Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.”

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.”

“It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.”

“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”

“I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie.”

“All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.”

“You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in.”

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

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

“A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.”

“Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.”

“Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.”

“We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.”