Curiosity Quotes

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
David Attenborough

Great, Natural, Source

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
Russell Baker

Age, Children, Parents

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes

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

Someone, Else, Getting

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb

Feeling, Down, Newspapers

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
Clyde Tombaugh

Famous, Universe, Interested

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
William Shatner

Life, Whole, Tree

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
Bryant H. McGill

Rather, Read, Satisfy

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Leo Burnett

Life, Great, Creative

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
Martha Beck

Real, Show, Meet

Love is three quarters curiosity.
Giacomo Casanova

Love, Three, Quarters

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing

Love, Children, Give

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
Adam Savage

Attitude, Thinking, Creative

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Period, Shoot, Sustains

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene

Age, Wisdom, Sad

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
Vivienne Westwood

Age, Alone, Live

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Alistair Cooke

I'm full of curiosity.
Sienna Miller

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Samuel Richardson

Friend, Wish, Tell

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

Fear, Bravery, Conquer

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Sydney J. Harris

Cannot, Secret, Drawn

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Oliver Goldsmith

Home, Country, Others

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
Kim Cattrall

Business, Today, Working

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
James Wolcott

Stars, Source, Tabloid

I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.
George H. W. Bush

Guess, Survivor

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
Robert Benchley

Children, Small, Old

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
Jose Saramago

Home, Help, Learn

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
Sally Ride

Science, Fun, Process

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
Kevin Mitnick

Business, Knowledge, Before

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 Wilson Lynd

Life, Amazing, Two

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