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

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

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

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
Jeremy Taylor

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Freya Stark

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

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
William Samuel Johnson

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

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
Harry Lorayne

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
James Stephens

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

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Hermann von Helmholtz

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
Martin Bashir

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.
Javier Bardem

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

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

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
Penelope Lively

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
Vincent Canby