Curiosity Quotes

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

~ Leo Burnett

Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.

~ Iris Apfel

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

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

~ Johnny Depp

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

~ Paul Theroux

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

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?

~ Lucy Larcom

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

What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.

~ Ranbir Kapoor

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.

~ Tom Brokaw

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

~ Daphne Guinness

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

~ Buzz Aldrin

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

~ Bruce Springsteen

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

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

~ R. D. Laing

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

~ John Singer Sargent

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

~ Caroline Kennedy

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Paul Berg