Curiosity Quotes

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Dorothy Parker)
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. View quote
Graham Greene
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. View quote
E. M. Forster
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. View quote
Steven Wright
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. View quote
E. E. Cummings
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. View quote
Anatole France
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. (Ezra Pound)
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. View quote
Alexander Pope
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. View quote
Edmund Burke
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. View quote
Samuel Johnson
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. View quote
Joseph Addison
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. View quote
Daniel Boone
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
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. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort. View quote
Sigmund Freud
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. (Albert Einstein)
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. View quote
Albert Einstein
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. View quote
Penelope Lively
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy. View quote
Germaine Greer