Curiosity Quotes

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

~ Pat Conroy

Our lives are marked by the people who choose to matter more: the teacher who encouraged our curiosity, the neighbor who lent a helping hand in time of need, the great leaders and perceptive thinkers whose vision and innovation improve the quality of our lives. And that's what it means to matter more. It's not about pursuit of riches or fame. It's about making a difference in people's lives. Remembered or not, lived out in a small town or on the world stage, the journey of relevance matters.

~ Marian Deegan

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Call it sentimentality. Call it curiosity. Just don't call it madness.

~ Megan Shepherd

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

~ Anatole France

Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity.

~ Brian Grazer

Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

~ Karl Barth

Where there's guts, there's curiosity, and where there's curiosity, there's guts.

~ Haruki Murakami

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening tore my heart with longing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

~ Criss Jami

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the desire to explore the unfamiliar. They are drawn toward what they don't understand.

~ Dani Shapiro

Make us, Lord, in Chesterton's distinction, travelers instead of tourists. Where the tourist defines his day by the expectation of seeing certain things, give us the traveler's openness to seeing what You will reveal.

~ Brian Eshleman

The person who asks a lot of questions has room for their faith to grow.

~ David Mcgee

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

~ Tom Clancy

As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead freed his mind from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.

~ William Zinsser

Curiosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond.

~ Debasish Mridha

We're all born with curiosity, but at some point, school usually manages to knock that out of us.

~ Max Tegmark

If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing. Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of suspending disbelief, that unspoiled appetite, that readiness to wonder, to pity, and to admire?

~ C.s. Lewis

Knowledge is the best economy we can have.

~ Greejesh Prakash

The more older we get, less question we ask. We have lost contacts, we have lost and the curiosity of the things.

~ Deyth Banger

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

~ Paul C. Nagel

When he had ended, the holy hermit was a moment silent, then said: My son, I have attended to thy story and I know the maiden. I have myself seen her, as have many. Know, then, that she is capricious for she imposeth conditions that man cannot fulfill, and delinquency is punished by desertion. She cometh only when unsought, and will not be questioned. One manifestation of curiosity, one sign of doubt, one expression of misgiving, and she is away!

~ Ambrose Bierce

The secret of wisdom is to be overly curious, like a cat--to take the time to look closely, to use all your senses to see and to touch and to taste and to smell and to hear, and to die because you were overly curious. To keep on wondering...about the afterlife. That is our only mission. Only one. If we don’t wonder, then we will never, ever be curious. Then, if like the cat, you wondered too far...you simply no longer will have to ever wonder again. Your mission will be fulfilled. All because of curiosity.--from The Wise-ass Man who butchered Eve Merriam’s wisdom...and Her Secret

~ Stan Sudan

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

~ Michael J. Fox

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

~ Jules Verne

Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.

~ David Halberstam

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such thing existed. And finally I decided that I would make boredom my subject matter. That I'd study it. That I'd become the world's leading authority on it. March, that was a red-letter day for humanity. What a field! What a domain! Titanic! Promethean! I trembled before it. I was inspired. I couldn't sleep. Ideas came in the night and I wrote them down, volumes of them. Strange that no one had gone after this systematically.Oh, melancholy, yes, but not modern boredom.

~ Saul Bellow

I had never seen a real live dead person.

~ Jacqueline Kelly

Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

~ Wendell Berry

My body is tired as worn out rug, but my brain (if i had) is always full of curiosity, jumping around for seeking new funs. If they could learn how to be cooperative each others, my life could be way easier... sigh*

~ Hiroko Sakai

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

~ George R.r. Martin

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

~ Samuel Johnson

Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.

~ Tamora Pierce

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

~ Jostein Gaarder

There are young men and women up and down the land who happily (or unhappily) tell anyone who will listen that they don’t have an academic turn of mind, or that they aren’t lucky enough to have been blessed with a good memory, and yet can recite hundreds of pop lyrics and reel off any amount of information about footballers. Why? Because they are interested in those things. They are curious. If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

~ Stephen Fry

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

~ Samuel Johnson

The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

~ C.s. Lewis