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

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

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

People die when curiosity goes.
Graham Swift

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

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

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
William Wirt

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
Fawn M. Brodie

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

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.
Charles Lyell

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
Ezra Pound

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
Bryan Magee

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated.
Lewis Tappan

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
Jacky Ickx

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

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

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France

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

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
Fanny Kemble