Curiosity Quotes (58) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Curiosity. Curiosity (from Latin curiosus "careful, diligent, curious," akin to cura "care") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in human and many animal species. The term can also be used to denote the behavior itself being caused by the emotion of curiosity. As this emotion represents a thirst for knowledge, curiosity is a major driving force behind scientific research and other disciplines of human study.
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"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 its mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
~ Albert Einstein Quotes
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it."
~ Sudie Back
"A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education."
~ Smiley Blanton
"Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion."
~ John Burroughs
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
~ E.E. cummings
"Enlightenment takes place when one lets his innocence emerge and sees nature and life with a childlike awe and respect. The ‘why’ of a child is repeated over and over, causing questions and the never-ending process of discovery."
~ Charles DuBack
"When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research."
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born."
~ Albert Einstein
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
~ Albert Einstein
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
~ Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
~ Albert Einstein
"At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance--that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be--curious--to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not."
~ William Faulkner
"The capacity to be puzzled is…the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
~ Erich Fromm
"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."
~ Mae Jemison
"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
~ Samuel Johnson
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
~ Henry Miller
"Curiosity is the key to creativity."
~ Akio Morita
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
~ Ellen Parr
"Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."
~ Linus Pauling
"The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul."
~ Alexandra Stoddard
"When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research."
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"The more I wonder, the more I love."
~ Alice Walker
"Be curious, not judgmental."
~ Walt Whitman
“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.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
~ Eugene S. Wilson
“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.”
~ Albert Einstein
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
~ Voltaire
“The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy”
~ Anatole France
"Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected."
~ John Locke
“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 marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
~ Albert Einstein
“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”
~ Walt Disney
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”
~ William Arthur Ward
“A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.”
~ Smiley Blanton
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
~ James Stephens
“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”
~ Franklin P. Adams
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last”
~ Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.
~ Augustus William Hare
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
~ Walt Disney
“Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
~ Leo Burnett
“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity”
~ Edmund Burke
“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
~ Aldous Huxley
“If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”
~ Bill Gates
“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back”
~ Eugene O'Neill
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.”
~ Samuel Johnson
“Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.”
~ Richard Whately
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humour, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
~ Ralph Waldo
“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.”
Joseph Addison
"The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions"
~ Bishop Mandell Creighton
“Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.”
~ Isaiah Berlin
"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything."
~ Laurence Sterne
"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. "
~ Joseph Addison
"Somehow I can't believe there are many heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret can be summarized in four C's. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence."
~ Walt Disney
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
~ Walt Disney
"People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning."
~ W. Edwards Deming
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