Curiosity Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Curiosity
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~ A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions. ~

Frederick Seitz

~ Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~

James Stephens

~ Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. ~

Sydney J. Harris

~ People die when curiosity goes ~

Graham Swift

~ Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ~

Richard Whately

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

Anatole France

~ The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~

Ellen Parr

~ The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. ~

Albert Einstein

~ I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas. ~

Dan Rather

~ Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected. ~

Bill Gates

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

Anatole France

~ You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~

Clay P. Bedford

~ The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~

Dorothy Parker

~ Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~

Graham Greene

~ Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ~

E.E. Cummings

~ It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~

Albert Einstein

~ A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions. ~

Frederick Seitz

~ Curiosity is the lust of the mind. ~

Thomas Hobbes

~ Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. ~

Charles Darwin

~ Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. ~

Aaron Klug

~ An understanding of the Natural World and whats in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. ~

Sir David Attenborough

~ Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?" After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it. ~

Chuck Berry

~ Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography ~

Evelyn Waugh

~ Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. ~

Samuel Horsley

~ A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. ~

Oliver Goldsmith

~ One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. ~

Alexander Pope

~ 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. ~

Edmund Burke

~ The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience -- they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

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