Curiosity Quotes

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. Goes to sleep all winter and doesn't eat anything more than grass as far as I know, to live all the summer. Not an interesting life perhaps, but a very peaceful one.

~ Agatha Christie

For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my ears and in my small body.

~ Dee Williams

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.

~ Carew Papritz

The ability to ask questions is a virtue and a trait of a free thinker.

~ Sabina Nore

Writing seems to free them (students) of the idea that math is a collection of right answers own by the teacher – a body of knowledge that she will dispense in chunks and that they have to swallow and digest.

~ John Countryman

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

~ Dee Henderson

...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)

~ Valerio Varesi

Editors are licensed to be curious.

~ William Zinsser

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

~ Pat Conroy

In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous.

~ Toni Morrison

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

~ John Le Carré

Intelligence comes with hard work and curiosity for the unknown.

~ Roberto Llamas

Eva’s only fault has been the one of wanting to know more, to experiment and search with her own sources the laws of the Universe, of her own body and to refuse the teachings from “above”. Eva, basically, represents the curiosity of science against the passive acceptance that belongs to faith.

~ Margherita Hack

I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and the scientist is trying to elucidate the hidden order in our reality. And that impulse is what the scientist shares with the mystic. The impulse to get to the bottom of things. To know how the world really works. To know the nature of things.

~ Michael Crichton

Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

~ Harold Nicolson

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

~ Dave Eggers

You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.

~ Susan Dennard

We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

~ Margaret Atwood

but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

~ Judy Blume

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

~ Orson Scott Card

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist.

~ Doris Lessing

The temptationTo take the precious things we have apartTo see how they workMust be resisted for they never fit together

~ Billy Bragg

This disease of curiosity.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed.

~ Margaret Atwood

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

~ Pat Conroy

The path between faith and understanding demands both obedience and inquiry. If Christianity is true, if it goes to the center of the universe and explains every stone and leaf the way we Christians think, then the more we search it out and explore it the more reasons we will have to be confident in that truth.

~ Matthew Lee Anderson

Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed.I grinned. Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman.

~ Susan Dennard

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

~ Susan Sontag

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.

~ Jim Butcher

That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.

~ Marni Bates

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

~ Laird Barron

I don't know what is behind the curtain, only that I need to find out.

~ Richard Paul Evans

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

~ Jim Elliot

Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly and political affairs: he is a snoop and a voyeur; he comments and classifies; his taxonomic impulse makes the novel appear to be a vast compendium, replete with burrowing wasps and bedsteads, military strategies, stereoscopes, asparagus and aeroplanes.

~ Adam A. Watt

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

~ George Eliot

Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?

~ Lionel Suggs

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

~ Thomas Hughes