Curiosity Quotations

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

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.

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

The thirst to know and understand a large and liberal discontent.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

When I was about 9 years old, I became very interested in the human body and diseases. In general, I was just curious about the world around me. I think that any sort of curiosity as a child is a good beginning to a career in science because science, at least to me, is a continuous exploration of the unknown.

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.

Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.

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.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

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.

Life runs to death as its goal, and we should go towards that next stage of experience either carelessly as to what must be, or with a good, honest curiosity as to what may be.

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?' I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

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.

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this'

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like.

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

I am writing to make sure that kids don't lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes I think parents emphasise more on doing well in school, which is important, but perhaps that sometimes comes at the cost of a child's natural curiosity.

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity - I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.