Curiosity Quotes

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.

~ Stephen Fry

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

~ Gloria Steinem

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

~ Umberto Eco

Curiosity is a call from knowledge.

~ Toba Beta

That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.

~ Daniel C. Dennett

Knowledge is the most essential ingredient of life, and it comes from curiosity.

~ Debasish Mridha

I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.

~ Umberto Eco

This was the end of the Renaissance. Culture, once beloved and fostered by the papacy, opened the way to dangerous freedom. Then - as now - knowledge, culture, intellectual curiosity became suspect, even dangerous to oppressive regimes: knowledge leading to engaging the mind into reasoning, culture into wanting to know more, intellectual curiosity sharpening the appetite for information, fact. Ignorance was considered safe and political oppression went hand in hand with the congregation of the Inquisition.

~ Gaia Servadio

Isn't it a good thing we don't know everything? If we did, we wouldn't have a reason to have curiosity, and curiosity is like imagination, taking us back to the time when we were just children in our own fantasylands.

~ Jule Warner

Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

Just go look.That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next.

~ James Rollins

All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?

~ Criss Jami

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

~ Rachel Carson

Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, but understanding is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It’s the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.

~ Zander Sherman

Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

You do not have to know which path you must take. That's not how life works. You simply must be curious and daring enough to take a step into the unknown. That's how you come to know.

~ Toni Sorenson

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

~ Plutarch

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

~ Dylan Thomas

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.

~ Floyd Dell

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

~ Philo Of Alexandria

I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.

~ Christine De Pizan

You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity.

~ Christopher Nolan

Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

More depended on the student than on the school.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Jefferson was the rare student who came to college already knowing that there could be joy in studying.

~ John Ferling

Education is not a destination, but it is a curious journey to enjoy the beauty of life.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Be daring curious.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested.[

~ H.w. Brands

Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the art of creativity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

~ Criss Jami

I had never met another who loved my mind more than my body. I could feel his curiosity finger-walk through my thoughts... intentional and hard. Absorbing me. Learning me. And as he leaned in and held my hand close to his, I heard my soul sigh... in a deep grateful breath.

~ Alfa H

During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If there’s one thing all diviners share, it’s curiosity. We really can’t help it; it’s just part of who we are. If you dug out a tunnel somewhere in the wilderness a thousand miles from anywhere and hung a sign on it saying, ‘Warning, this leads to the Temple of Horrendous Doom. Do not enter, ever. No, not even then’, you’d get back from lunch to find a diviner already inside and two more about to go in.Come to think about it, that might explain why there are so few of us.

~ Benedict Jacka

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery eac

~ Albert Einstein