Hopefully these curiosity quotes have got you curious enough to keep reading:
A man should go on living–if only to satisfy his curiosity. -Yiddish Proverb
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. -Luis Bunuel (1900-1983)
Be curious, for knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. -Suidie Back
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. -Marie Curie
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. -Clarence Day
Curiosity has its own reason for existence. -Albert Einstein
Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. -S. Leonard
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. -Richard Whately
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. -Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. -William Arthur Ward
Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. -Eugene O’Neill
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -James Stephens
Curiousity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling. -Blaise Pascal
I keep six honest serving-men, they taught me all I knew; their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. -Rudyard Kipling
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellence. -Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43BC)
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. -Voltaire
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. -Bernard Baruch
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
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -Carl Edward Sagan
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -Ellen Parr
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. -Edmund Burke
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. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France (1844-1924)
There are different kinds of curiosity: one comes from self-interest, which makes us want to know everything that may be profitable to us; another from pride, which comes from a desire to know what others are ignorant of. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do…Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in. -Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959)
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