Curious Quotes

With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, your dream will be reality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I will passionately perform my work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let's follow our curiosity & our joy.

~ Jay Woodman

Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however, have grown up hearing the word ‘no’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming so often, they create their own little world, a world with lots of limitations. What then do most adults teach to their children? ‘No’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming.’ So, what can you learn from a child today…?

~ James A. Murphy

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.

~ Dan Brown

How beautiful to be fully alive in the moment?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I assume you are the sort of person who would go backstage after the opera in hopes of hearing the prima donna crying on the telephone, or walking in on the baritone fellating the basso buffo. I respect that-I was always the same way myself-though I suspect you are not very happy. Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions. I remember, even before this was visited upon me, how I envied those who eagerly did what they were told: those who married without complaint at father's behest; those who looked up rather than sideways in church; those, in short, who honestly believed in God, good kings, and righteous wars.

~ Christopher Buehlman

The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.

~ James Altucher

I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or serious or what. This bothered me. Or intrigued me. Or both.

~ Sarah Dessen

. . . most martial artists want to know how A technique is done, A seasoned Sensei will demonstrate why

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Live on no complex dreams... When the meaning of what you want to do isn't clear, it means there is absolutely no meaning! Simplicity with curiosity is the lap on which success rests!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You ought to be curious and daring.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream.

~ Nikki Rowe

Is my world turning into Harry Potter's?!

~ Jada Berglund

Life is like a game - we should be curious to play it - you explore and learn and grow - that is what it is for - that and having fun. It all expands consciousness- your own, the collective, and the cosmic.

~ Jay Woodman

When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ( Looking for the unexpected )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Curiosity leads to knowledge.Knowledge leads to understanding.Understanding leads to love.Love leads to harmony.Be curious.

~ Sabina Nore

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

~ Jasper Fforde

The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Curiosity is also my worst vice, and once stirred one not to be denied.

~ Anthony Ryan

I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a passion. People intrigue me. Life intrigues me. I see a story behind every pair of eyes I meet, history in every voice. I'll see someone wearing a smile and wonder what put it there. Words allow me to immerse myself in a whole other world. I get to become a different person.

~ Nicola Haken

Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Smile out loud! Make them wonder.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Just as the way sun is behind the moon’s light reflection, I know that everything which comes into my life, or every thing I notice, I see, I hear, has a story behind it. And that story connects it to me. So I become curious to know these back stories. And the more I know them, the more I know myself, each time in a different way.

~ Khadija Rupa

Jacob: Let her stare.Terra: What?Jacob: Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.

~ Justina Chen

When you are open to living and trust the process of life and ready to face all your fears, and not afraid to go astray with life, life definitely comes and talk to you, in its own language.

~ Roshan Sharma

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

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes I feel she hasn't left...especially when I wear the photo charm necklace with her picture in it. I can't tell you how many young men have stared into that picture and the reaction is always the same: a slow beam rises across their faces and they want to know all about her. They become entranced the way Dana Andrews did when he first saw Gene Tierney's portrait in Laura. I know Maria finds all of this quite amusing; why shouldn't she? 'Laura' is her middle name.

~ Pamela Palmer Mutino

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

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

~ Elizabeth Wein

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

~ Max Tegmark

Being passionately curious about things give us the desire to want to learn, to explore and to seek opportunities to set goals and accomplish great things. It allows us to dream.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I had never seen a real live dead person.

~ Jacqueline Kelly

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

Nature answers every question.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

~ Debasish Mridha

I am so grateful to be here on this awesome planet with it's diverse life - everything we need to not just survive but to thrive. I am excited to continually learn more about it, and always curious to see what is going to come up next.

~ Jay Woodman

[Rumsfield's] reply included a complex formulation that would become inextricably associated with him: 'There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

~ Ian Leslie

I'm not crazy, I'm curious.

~ Jennifer Donnelly