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A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid.
-Patricia Alexander
Book of Comforts
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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
-Francis Beaumont
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Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.
-Bible
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A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
-Smiley Blanton
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
-Fawn M. Brodie
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Where the apple reddens never pry -- lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
-Robert Browning
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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
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
-Edmund Burke
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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
-Edmund Burke
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That low vice, curiosity!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
-Rachel Carson
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There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
-G. K. Chesterton
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It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
-Frank Moore Colby
The Colby Essays
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Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
-Alistair Cooke
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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
-Alistair Cooke
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Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.
-Robertson Davies
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Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
-Clarence Day
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If you can approach the world
-Daniel C. Dennett
Breaking the Spell, 2006
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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
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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
-Albert Einstein
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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 this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
-Albert Einstein
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
-George Eliot
Middlemarch
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books about Curiosity
