Curiosity Quotes - page 2

What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it. (William Hazlitt)
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. View quote
Umberto Eco
Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window. View quote
Michael Palin
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. View quote
Edith Wharton
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie
Curiosity is the lust of the mind. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. View quote
Linus Pauling
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. View quote
William Lyon Phelps
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. View quote
Victor Hugo
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. (Aldous Huxley)
Love is three quarters curiosity. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. View quote
Walt Disney
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. View quote
Martha Beck
Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. View quote
James Stephens
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. View quote
Clyde Tombaugh
I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity. View quote
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess. (Yukio Mishima)
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
curiosity is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
Françoise Sagan