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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.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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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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Books about Curiosity
