Curiosity Quotes

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

Forward, Moving, Down

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein

Education, Miracle, Formal

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein

Important, Reason, Stop

Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein

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 should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Mother, Child, Gift

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

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Reason, Whatever

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wait, Secret, Lying

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

Experience, Human, Once

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright

While, Cat, Suspect

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Everything, Before, Soul

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

Business, Nice, Person

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo

Bravery, Feminine, Forms

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Another, Conquer

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

Children, Vision, Clarity

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce

Mind, Woman, Soul

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X

Life, Good, Reading

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo

Woman, Her, Word

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

May, Wish, Others

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke

Mind, Human, Emotion

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

Art, Young, Whole

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. Forster

Good, Mind, Human

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson

Intellect, Permanent, Vigorous

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

Great, Knowledge, Might

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
Bryant H. McGill

Happiness, Great, Secrets

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston

Purpose, Research, Poking

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France

Greatest, Virtue, Perhaps

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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
John Burroughs

Religion, Joy, Universe

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward

Learning, Candle

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Alistair Cooke

Life, Serenity, Cheerful

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