Curiosity Quotes

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

~ Kevin Mitnick

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

~ Alexander Pope

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

~ Adam Savage

I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.

~ Allan Hamilton

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

~ E. E. Cummings

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

~ Kate Walsh

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

~ George Bernard Shaw

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

~ Robert B. Laughlin

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them?

~ Alan Alda

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

~ Michio Kaku

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

~ Sally Ride

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

~ Ahmed Zewail

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

~ Louie Schwartzberg

When I was about 9 years old, I became very interested in the human body and diseases. In general, I was just curious about the world around me. I think that any sort of curiosity as a child is a good beginning to a career in science because science, at least to me, is a continuous exploration of the unknown.

~ Eva Vertes

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

~ Irving Langmuir

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

~ Anatole France

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

~ Graham Greene

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

~ Vivienne Westwood

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

~ Linus Pauling

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

~ John O'keefe

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

~ Aldous Huxley

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

~ George Tenet

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

~ William Arthur Ward

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

~ Simon Sinek

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

~ Spike Jonze

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

~ Andie Macdowell

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

~ Sylvia Earle

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

~ Ai Weiwei

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

~ Robert Wilson Lynd

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

~ Ada Yonath

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

~ Samuel Johnson

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

~ Samuel Horsley

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

~ James Stephens

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

~ Harvey Mackay

My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.

~ Baruj Benacerraf

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

~ John Bytheway

We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.

~ Lydia Millet

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

~ Sarah Kay

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

~ Renée Fleming