Curiosity Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Curiosity
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~ Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attentions to little objects which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought, and not unjustly, incapable of greater matters. ~

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

~ Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. ~

John Locke

~ An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. ~

David Attenborough

~ Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull. ~

John Ruskin 1819

~ Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. ~

S. Leonard Rubinstein

~ Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. ~

William Arthur Ward

~ Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity ~

Jim Morrison

~ You know what a woman's curiosity is ~

Oscar Wilde

~ You know what a woman's curiosity is ~

Oscar Wilde

~ 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 should be curiosity. ~

Eleanor Roosevelt

~ Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back ~

Eugene O\'Neill

~ Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ 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

~ There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of. ~

Kin Hubbard

~ Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. ~

Unknown

~ 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. ~

E. M. Forster

~ I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. ~

Eleanor Roosevelt

~ 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

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

Albert Einstein

~ Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization ~

George Macaulay Trevelyan

~ Curiosity is the lust of the mind. ~

Thomas Hobbes

~ The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity ~

Edmund Burke

~ Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awakened people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good flammable stuff, it will catch fire. ~

Anatole France†

~ Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we have ceas. ~

Jiddu Krishnamurti

~ What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics. ~

Oscar Wilde

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