Curiosity Quotes

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

~ Colette

ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

~ Dorothy Parker

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder…

~ Jostein Gaarder

Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.

~ Saul D. Alinsky

Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

~ Walt Disney Company

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

~ Laurence Sterne

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

~ Walt Disney Company

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

~ Norton Juster

It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.

~ Luci Swindoll

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

~ Albert Einstein

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

~ Criss Jami

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

~ Criss Jami

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset

~ Criss Jami

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.

~ Damien Echols

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

~ Sydney J. Harris

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

~ Oscar Wilde

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

~ Holly Black

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

~ Karen Blixen

Misfortunes make us wise

~ Mary Norton

I know there are days when even one single positive thought feels like too much effort, but you must develop an unconditional love for life. You must never lose your childish curiosity for the possibilities in every single day. Who you can be, what you can see, what you can feel and where it can lead you. Be in love with your life, everything about it. The sadness and the joys, the struggles and the lessons, your flaws and strengths, what you lose and what you gain.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Having no curiosity can be a dangerous thing..

~ Nanette L. Avery

You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping into your wildest dreams of self love.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.

~ Roy Bennett

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict. -The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

~ Kirsten Siggins

When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

My favorite words in the world are these: in conjunction.They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope.Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Curiosity is a good thing, like onion soup. But too much onion soup makes your breath smell terrible. And too much curiosity can make your whole body smell terrible, if it causes you to be dead.

~ Michael Reisman

I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but these are only leaves springing from a root out of dry ground. His vital forces are not fed,and very soon he has given out his all.

~ Harriet Blaine

Every complaint is just another opportunity to learn about the person better. Get curious, not angry!

~ Harrish Sairaman

It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.

~ Criss Jami

Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.

~ Loren Rhoads

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

~ Albert Einstein

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

~ Charles Baudelaire

The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein