CURIOSITY

Quote: The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge. Author: Apocrypha

Quote: You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in. Author: Ethel Barrymore 1879-1959, American Actress

Quote: Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Quote: Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. Author: Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet

Quote: All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence. Author: Luis Bunuel 1900-1983, Spanish Film Director

Quote: The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

Quote: That low vice, curiosity! Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet

Quote: It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

Quote: Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. Author: Alistair Cooke 1908-, British Broadcaster, Journalist

Quote: Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. Author: Clarence Day 1874-1935, American Essayist

Quote: Never lose a holy curiosity. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

Quote: The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

Quote: Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. Author: Edward M. Forster 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

Quote: The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer

Quote: Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Author: Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679, British Philosopher

Quote: Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Author: Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679, British Philosopher

Quote: Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

Quote: Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author

Quote: Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author

Quote: Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Author: Mary Mccarthy 1912-1989, American Author, Critic

Quote: We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. Author: Desmond Morris 1928-, British Anthropologist

Quote: All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. Author: Grace Paley 1922-, American Short Story Writer

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

Quote: 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. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

Quote: A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity. Author: Yiddish Proverb Sayings of Yiddish Origin

Quote: 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 would be curiosity. Author: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

Quote: Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Author: Carl Edward Sagan 1934-, American Astronomer, author

Quote: The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher

Quote: Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit. Author: Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer

Quote: Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. Author: G. M. Trevelyan 1876-1962, British Historian

Quote: I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie. Author: Christy Turlington 1969-, American Model

Quote: You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives Author: Source Unknown

Quote: The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent. Author: Sir William Watson 1858-1935, British Poet

Quote: Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. Author: Richard Whately 1787-1863, British Prelate, Writer