Curiosity Quotes

Had a person attempted to taste me so soon after we met, I would have been alarmed; but since Athena was an octopus, I was thrilled. Although we couldn’t have been more different — I, a terrestrial vertebrate constrained by joints and bound to air; she, a marine mollusk with not a single bone, who breathed water — she was clearly as curious about me as I was about her.

~ Sy Montgomery

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Inventiveness depends upon two habits of mind, which we can adopt and develop: attention andcuriosity.Attention means paying attention.....Curiosity means just that. Endlessly curious. Endlessly asking questions. Endlessly wanting to knowhow, and why?

~ Richard N. Bolles

Now it is quite true to say that curiosity, exactly like its analogue, lust, never ends and is never satisfied; but man was made for something more than this. He was made to rise, above curiosity and lust, to love, and through love to the attainment of truth.

~ Seraphim Rose

Generous listening is powered by curiosity, a virtue we can invite and nurture in ourselves to render it instinctive. It involves a kind of vulnerability - a willingness to be surprised, to let go of assumptions and take in ambiguity. The listener wants to understand the humanity behind the words of the other, and patiently summons one's own best self and one's own best words and questions.

~ Krista Tippett

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

~ Amit Kalantri

It may seem an easy task to disregard a secret but secrets are like splinters beneath the flesh, the infection spreads and spreads and then the limb turns gangrenous and must be sawn away, all for the sake of a sliver of wood.

~ Keith Miller

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

~ William Faulkner

At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity.

~ Mark Twain

My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

~ A.j. Jacobs

A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The author jokes that the culture at his first job at Entertainment Weekly chased away the worthwhile aspects of his Brown education, but in so doing he makes a subtle point about the profound impact of the culture with which we surround ourselves and how easily we can be defined and constrained by our jobs.

~ A.j. Jacobs

I think it is a good thing that the Trinity is confusing If it weren't, we wouldn't have the desire to learn more.

~ Jule Warner

Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among soldiers in battlefields. He sought a man who had died and returned to life amid the wounded struggling for their lives in pools of blood, a soldier who could tell him about the secrets of the Otherworld. But one of Tamerlane's warriors, taking the seeker for one of the enemy, cleared him in half with a smooth stroke of his scimitar, causing him to conclude that in the Hereafter man is split in two.

~ Orhan Pamuk

How is it possible to know so much about a person and yet know nothing at all?

~ Adele Parks

I'm not a nazis or fascist, I'm just normal guy who have a lot of curios about a lot of stuff in other words I have curiosity for information.

~ Deyth Banger

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.

~ Anthony Powell

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam

~ Aaron Sorkin

His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.

~ H.w. Brands

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, Have you any news?

~ Harold Holzer

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

~ Lemony Snicket

The writer as boxer says he develops by, learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

~ Davis Miller

The more my brain was fed, the hungrier it became.

~ Kevin Deyoung

In liminal space, one meets the unknown, the marginalized, the synchronistic, the other, the unconscious edge of one's former narratives. At this point, the possibility to try out new narratives, to reframe one's story, becomes critical. Through narratives of participation the center of gravity shifts from fear and defensiveness to curiosity, creativity, and celebration. One begins to take a stand to validate one own's affects and doubts while at the same time interrogating them. The effect of such a shift is that the area of questioning about the self, the world, and the use of narrative language begins to widen noticeably. We can no longer assume there will be an outcome of homogeneous accounts through dialogue. The frames of narratives of participation anticipate heterogeneity rather than accord.

~ Helene Shulman

Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.

~ Sherry Turkle

When a mosquito sees a light in the darkness, it is drawn to it by an urge too powerful to resist. Even if the light is a bug zapper, caked with the carcasses of all the mosquito's electrocuted relatives, the poor insect will still use the last flap of its wings to fly to its death. It simply can't help it.

~ Keith Graves

The idea of the original had no place.

~ Sherry Turkle

As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.

~ Joe Cawley

Without stories we end up with stereotypes -- a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

~ Damon Galgut

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

~ Geraldine Brooks

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.

~ Erik Larson

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

~ Davis Miller

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

~ Paul C. Nagel

Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir.

~ M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

~ Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

~ Richard Brookhiser

Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward.

~ Debasish Mridha