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A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid.
-Patricia Alexander, Book of Comforts
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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
-Francis Beaumont
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Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
-Bible
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A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
-Smiley Blanton
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
-Fawn M. Brodie
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Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
-Robert Browning
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All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
-Luis Bunuel
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
-Edmund Burke
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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
-Edmund Burke
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That low vice, curiosity!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
-Rachel Carson
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There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
-G. K. Chesterton
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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
-Frank Moore Colby, The Colby Essays
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Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
-Alistair Cooke
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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
-Alistair Cooke
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Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.
-Robertson Davies
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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
-Clarence Day
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If you can approach the world
-Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell, 2006
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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
-Walt Disney
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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
-Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. 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 every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
-Albert Einstein
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
-E. M. Forster
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I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.
-John Glenn
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Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
-Thomas Hobbes
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
-Victor Hugo
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
-Samuel Johnson
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
-Samuel Johnson
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
-James Russell Lowell
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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 Lynd, Solomon in All His Glory
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
-Mary McCarthy
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We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
-Desmond Morris
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All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
-Grace Paley
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
-William Lyon Phelps
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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
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
-Fran
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
-Jeremy Taylor
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
-G. M. Trevelyan
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I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie.
-Christy Turlington
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You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives
-Source Unknown
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The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
-Sir William Watson
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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
-Richard Whately
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Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
-Alfred North Whitehead
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-Oscar Wilde
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Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Books about Curiosity
