Curiosity Quotes

His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection.

~ Laurie Perez

Unfortunately, I also found out the hard way in my youth. But I guess that's how most learning is done, isn't it?

~ Karen Ann Wirtz

Education is free. Though the education I refer to is not confined to a stuffy old building that still manages to retain its charm – don’t get me wrong, I love my school – but it’s out there in the real world. Waiting to be experienced. Waiting for the curious young minds of tomorrow to free themselves from the shackles of ignorance and transcend above everyday like-minded thoughts and uncover the mysteries of tomorrow.

~ Anika De Souza

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

~ Willis R. Whitney

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

~ Victoria Schwab

When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict.

~ Kirsten Siggins

When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The quest for knowledge never ends, it just leads to more curiosities that lead to a greater mind.

~ Hafiz

Knowledge is curiosity to know more.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

~ Jasper Fforde

I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

~ Jenny Han

Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

~ Gene Cernan

The day of the week on which the tour took place was known to all workers. All devices in its path ought to have been carefully neutralized or locked, since it was unreasonable to expect human beings to withstand the temptation to handle knobs, keys, handles and pushbuttons.

~ Isaac Asimov

Dr. Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and all minds capable of openness and curiosity. This is not a bedtime story to help you fall asleep, but a wakeup call that has the best chance of bringing your rational mind back to life.(Review of Dr. Peter Boghossian's book, 'A Manual for Creating Atheists')

~ Stefan Molyneux

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

~ John Cage

Curiosity is also my worst vice, and once stirred one not to be denied.

~ Anthony Ryan

The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.

~ Richard Rohr

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him.

~ Andrew Pettegree

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.

~ William Grimes

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

~ Philip Zaleski

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

~ Frank Herbert

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

~ Frank Herbert

It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

~ Davis Miller

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

~ H.w. Brands

Goldwater had never even considered a non-Arizonan. Like a man on his deathbed, he wanted to be surrounded only by friends.

~ Rick Perlstein

Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

~ David Halberstam

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

~ Tom Clancy

Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time.

~ Douglas Copeland

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

~ Richard J. Foster

You hand over control, you start winning.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven’t yet found a way to learn from them.

~ Eric Greitens

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

~ John Adams

History teacher Bob Alston's expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to generate a roadmap to guide his new learning. He was an expert at cultivating puzzlement it was Alston's ability to stand back from first impressions, to question his quick leaps of mind, to keep track of his questions that together pointed him in the direction of new learning.

~ Sam Wineburg

Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for listening and for conversation, it seems, that allowed him to produce textured historical narratives of grand impact.

~ David Halberstam

Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, I went to college with every person I ever met.

~ Chris Gardner