Curiosity Quotes

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
Philip Zimbardo

Hurt, Beliefs, Formed

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.
Ai Weiwei

History, Art, Old

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.
Brit Marling

Future, Human, Living

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
William Lyon Phelps

Life, Keep, Secrets

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
John Barton

Mean, Others, Themselves

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Richard Whately

Attention, Memory, Parent

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.
John Hodgman

Career, Idea, Lives

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
Adam Savage

Science, Real, Scientists

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
Samuel Alexander

Act, Begins, Pieces

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
Richard Powers

Novel, Mainstream, Absolutely

People die when curiosity goes.
Graham Swift

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
Diane Sawyer

Good, Cats, Follow

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

Life, Real, Blood

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
Genevieve Gorder

Found, Intense, Oprah

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
Jonathan Miller

Conscience, Social, Medicine

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.
Tina Yothers

Music, Attention, Fine

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.
Richard Ford

Job, Person, Done

In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.
Tim Heidecker

Crazy, Against, President

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
Elvis Costello

Music, Passion, Ideas

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
Joe Murray

Life, Time, Human

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
Andrew Coyle Bradley

Time, Hero, Sometimes

As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.
Tucker Carlson

Person, Everyone, Story

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.
Goldie Hawn

Important, Young, Staying

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
Lara St. John

Patient, Seen, Bit

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

Great, Passion, Last

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.
Claire Danes

Actor, Involved, Press

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'
Eve Arnold

Single, Word, Kept

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
Kate Walsh

Humor, Smart, Someone

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
H. G. Bissinger

Life, Granted, Texas

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
Nina Arianda

Life, Deep, Makes

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