Curiosity Quotes - page 23

So long as Geology had not lifted up a part of the veil... it was easy to treat these questions as too transcendental... But it is no longer possible to restrain curiosity from attempting to pry into the relations which connect the present state of the animal and vegetable worlds. (Charles Lyell)
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. View quote
Rupert Murdoch
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do. View quote
Robertson Davies
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as was Creatore, or the resplendent Guardsmen of the bands - because such people did not often come my way, and I hoped that they might impart some great revelation to me, some insight which would help me to a clearer understanding of the world about me. View quote
Robertson Davies
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to. View quote
Richard Ford
To have enough curiosity to start to question your deepest identity is absolutely vital and essential to spiritual awakening, and to the realization of peace and freedom. View quote
Adyashanti
The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual. View quote
Jürgen Klinsmann
In most cases the scientist will be fully aware of the possibility of an abuse of his discoveries, but aside from his innate scientific curiosity he will be motivated by a deep-seated hope and belief that something of value for his fellow man may emerge from his labors. View quote
Wernher von Braun
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications. But intellectual satisfaction we obtain only from a connection of the whole, just from its conformity with law. View quote
Hermann von Helmholtz
What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination. View quote
Julius Sumner Miller
Kids are my favorites ... their spirit and curiosity has not yet been dulled by schools. (Julius Sumner Miller)
I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change. View quote
Kathleen Norris
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. View quote
Richard Powers
I try to root the language of my poetry in kindness, forgiveness, compassion and curiosity, that is the way I want to live, but of course that's not to say anger and resentment and envy and other difficult emotions don't make a noise in my work... View quote
Raymond Antrobus
Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit. View quote
Jeremy Taylor
A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience. View quote
Oswald Chambers
The curiosity of Man, and the cunning of his reason, have revealed much of what Nature held hidden. View quote
Paul Churchland
Curiosity is the engine of achievement. View quote
Ken Robinson
You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them. View quote
Ken Robinson
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those. (Mark Twain)
Of course, we had no idea whatever that this would one day be applied to make hydrogen bombs. Our curiosity was just curiosity about the structure of the nucleus of the atom, and the discovery of these reactions was purely, as the Americans would put it, coincidental. View quote
Mark Oliphant
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. View quote
Tucker Carlson
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
Cognition is autonomous; it refuses to have any answers foisted on it from the outside. Yet it suffers without protest having certain questions prescribed to it from the outside (and it is here that my heresy regarding the unwritten law of the university originates). Not every question seems to me worth asking. Scientific curiosity and omnivorous aesthetic appetite mean equally little to me today, though I was once under the spell of both, particularly the latter. Now I only inquire when I find myself inquired of. View quote
Franz Rosenzweig